Susan O'Keeffe (Labour)

-----that the N4 has been deemed one of the most dangerous roads in the country. Some 29 people have died on one particular stretch of that road over a short number of years. It is one of the only roads in Ireland on which white crosses mark each of those deaths. While they serve as some indication that people should slow down, I am pretty certain no one in the House will agree that they are a replacement for decent and proper upgrading of the road. We all understand that the promised reconstruction of the road has been delayed but much other work could be done on it.

I ask the Leader to ask the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, why the N4, given it has been deemed by the county coroner to be one of the unsafest roads in Ireland and by the head of the IDA, Mr. Barry O'Leary, to be a disadvantage for foreign direct investment into Sligo, was omitted from the road improvements programme when everyone in Sligo understood it was at the top of the list.