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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I want to thank Deputy Devlin for putting in this question. It is very important that we keep up our support of Ukraine at national and at EU level, particularly with the developments in the Middle East. Perhaps the attention and focus is not on the Ukrainian situation as much as it might have been for the 18 months prior to that but it is vitally important that we continue to advocate,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I commend the Tánaiste for the work he has done on this issue. He has represented the country on this matter with distinction, particularly since 7 October. His recent visit to the Middle East helped. The situation is very difficult. I condemn the depravity we have seen from Hamas and the Israeli response, which involves the indiscriminate killing of so many thousands of people,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how Ireland can help achieve an end to the current wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50272/23]

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

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome the fact that this issue is now on his radar and that measures are being taken to address the problem. I remember working as Jimmy Deenihan's parliamentary assistant back in the early 2000s. At that stage, trying to get driving tests for people who needed their licences for the purposes of work was a real problem. It improved for a while, but it...

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

Brendan Griffin: 7. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commit to progressing the N22 Farranfore to Lissivigeen and Killarney bypass project 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 serious injury on this section of road in recent years; if he...

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

Brendan Griffin: This question relates to the roads project from the Tralee side of Farranfore to the Cork side of Killarney. It is an important part of that Tralee-Cork corridor that we spoke about earlier. It is a highly dangerous section of road at present. It has high fatality figures as well. The Minister might update the House on recent statistics and projections by TII on what will happen if there...

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

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister. This is a important project for my county and for the region. I hope that the Minister will find it in his heart in the coming weeks, when the TII allocations for 2024 are being granted, to provide adequate funding to progress this project. We are looking forward to seeing the preferred corridor, hopefully in the first quarter of 2024, but progress needs to continue...

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.