Seanad debates

Thursday, 7 November 2002

Adjournment Matters. - Roads Projects.

 

Transport is a huge area to which the issues of decentralisation and national spatial strategy are closely linked. Unfortunately, development has been allowed to proceed in a manner which has resulted in gridlock every day on the roads in Dublin and elsewhere in the country. A fresh look is needed in relation to motorways in terms of the wisdom of pumping money into motorways at the expense of regional and secondary roads which are neglected. Will international construction firms be employed to build new motorways? I suspect this may be the case, which obviously would not be good for Irish business. If the Minister of State is not in a position to answer that question now, I ask him to convey my concern to the Minister for Transport. It is a somewhat ironic contrast with the inadequate transport system in this country that many of the transport systems in other countries were built by Irish emigrants.

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