Shane Ross (Independent)

I know. I am well and truly injured. There is an unanswerable case for opening them now and paying an additional amount, which I presume would be only approximately €75 million. If the Minister is going to spend approximately €1 billion on this, which is the kind of inflation-linked calculation he would come up with, he might as well spend an additional €75 million to open those gates now. I do not think he realises the absolute misery he has caused and continues to cause commuters.

What else is happening on that road that is very difficult to understand? If anybody travels that road by night, he or she will see that there are lanes being built on or which are closed at night and on weekends when people could very happily do the work which is carried out in many other countries and clear those roads at a much faster pace.