Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

As it is so long since we saw him could we invite the Minister for Transport to make a guest appearance in the House to explain the Government's policy on the development and construction of inter-urban routes, as enunciated in the national spatial strategy document? Priority has been given to the routes from Dublin to Cork and Galway but there is no mention of development of the route to the south east. In local papers the Tánaiste is on record as being against the development of such a route to Waterford and the south east.