Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I want to ask a specific question regarding Daly’s roundabout in Killarney, on the N22, which the Minister knows well. There is a proposal by TII and Kerry County Council to remove the roundabout and replace it with a traffic light. Five sets of traffic lights are supposed to be put up instead of the roundabout. I ask that temporary lights be provided first to see how this will work. Killarney is already choked from every side with respect to getting in and out of the town. In any case, what I am saying to these people is that this roundabout should not be removed, and the work should not be done, until the outer bypass is finished and clearly done. It will create mayhem to replace the roundabout with traffic lights. I ask the Minister to deliver that message to the Minister for Transport.

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