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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is a need to know what our global footprint is. Finally, I will go back to the northern distributor road. What is happening at the moment, the opening up in Moyross, is hugely significant. I have always worked on that. I do not see various means of transport as mutually exclusive. The Minister made reference to the Dublin-Limerick motorway. I would like to see buses coming from...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am raising this under programme B.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: That is why we have a Parliament to which we are elected.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Absolutely.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Let us have that chat then.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We will win the Ryder Cup this time.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The bypass is vital.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: We can debate that.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have limited time. I am not disagreeing. The point I am making is that these are not mutually exclusive. Charleville, Buttevant and Mallow need to be bypassed.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: Equally, the N20 is highly dangerous, and many of the businesses we have in Limerick are also based in Cork. I believe that if we want to be grown up about balanced regional development, outside of anything to do with climate change or anything else, we must link the two largest cities outside of Dublin, namely Cork and Limerick, where there is a counter-pole from all down along the western...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: They are not mutually exclusive. That is my point.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: The M20, to me, is very simple. It is currently in the planning and design phase, which involves a motorway and the bypasses of Charleville, Buttevant and Mallow. Under the NDP, will it be allowed to continue with that process?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. There is a process under way at the minute. Will that process be allowed to continue under the NDP when it is announced next week?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. My question is a direct one. Will the process that is under way whereby TII is pairing, reviewing and looking at various design options, which include both rail and road on the M20, be allowed to continue to do its work under the new NDP? Both a motorway and bypasses are being dealt with. I am not-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: No, no.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have a very direct question. I need the Minister to answer it. A process has been ongoing for the past two or three years to examine the M20 project and consider both road and rail. It went out for public consultation, has now come back in for review and will be due to go back out again. Will that be allowed to continue?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that. All I want is an assurance from the Government that the M20 project currently under way - the project rather than the final destination - is allowed to continue.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: For me, the M20 is at the front and centre of regional development. I thank the Minister. I call Deputy Ó Murchú and I thank him for his forbearance.