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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: They are all important projects. It is all relative in terms of where one is and what one is doing. In terms of the reality of the situation here, I have asked the Minister on a number of occasions this morning for the projected road fatalities and he has avoided the question. With all due respect, we have to be real about things here. The Minister has been given those figures. I know...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: The Minister should have.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: It was in the written question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: That is not good enough. We are talking about people's lives here. We are talking about roads projects and the cost involved. The Minister does not have those figures and I put it in the written question on both questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: The Minister has to acknowledge there is a cost.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: There is a cost, though, with that ideology.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I absolutely accept the Minister's bona fides but he has to acknowledge the cost.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: The Minister will be delighted to know that I am substituting for Deputy Higgins on this question, which relates to the waiting times for driving tests. In 2020, Covid created a massive problem in this area and massive backlogs, but we have not seen the type of progress that we would have liked to have seen in clearing those backlogs. The regular issues that I have to deal with in my office...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I concur with what Deputy Creed said. The vision must be there. I am always reluctant to raise road projects, particularly new ones, with the Minister in the Chamber because it has been a recipe for abject disappointment over the past number of years. I know that we are quite different ideologically with regard to our views on these issues but the reality is that as Deputy Creed pointed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: Thank you but how many have-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: That started before the Minister came into office.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: We were there for the signing of the tenders. I was the Minister of State at the time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I will.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 5. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will seek to have the N22 Macroom to Ballincollig project added to the national development plan, and if he will seek to have the project progressed at the earliest possible date; if he recognises the need for this project to enhance the south-west economic corridor from Tralee to Cork; if he is aware of the loss of life and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: The question concerns the N22, in particular the section of road between Macroom and Ballincollig on the Cork city side of the newly developed Macroom to Baile Bhuirne bypass. Will the Minister update the House on the progress on this project and whether it will be included in the review of the NDP? It is a vital part of the jigsaw in regard to the Cork to Tralee economic corridor and it is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I believe this project has to be in the NDP because it is that important from a regional point of view. It is not even in my own constituency but it is very important for the south-west region and for the economic corridor between Cork city and Tralee. I know it is not a road the Minister would travel often but a hell of a lot of my constituents travel that road every day to work in Cork...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: On behalf of the people of Kerry, I express my shock and revulsion at what happened to those little children and their carer on Thursday. I thank the people who came to their assistance - Ireland's finest. I also acknowledge the emergency workers who came under attack from Ireland's worst. I thank the brave men and women of An Garda Síochána who repelled those attacks and brought...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (23 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a new IDA Ireland advance facility at Kerry Technology Park; the anticipated timeline for the various stages in the process of delivering the new facility; the progress made in the past three years while this Deputy has been seeking regular updates through parliamentary questions;...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (23 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I did not realise four questions would be skipped. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her discretion; I appreciate it. I ask the Minister to update the House on the efforts to provide a new advance facility in Kerry Technology Park and to create jobs in County Kerry.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (23 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister for the update. When County Kerry is included with Cork city and county in those south-west figures, the lack of foreign direct investment, proportionately, in County Kerry often gets masked. It is important to acknowledge that Kerry does not punch as heavily as we should and we need to widen our economic base. We depend too much on the tourism and hospitality sector...