Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator White for raising the issue of the A5 and Senator Harte for commenting on it. It is a deep regret that the Minister for Finance in the North of Ireland has decided, having had no consultation, to reallocate funding for a major road project which would link Dublin to Donegal. I would disagree with Senator Harte about the reason for the reallocation, in that it has been assisted in no small way by the decision of this Government not to allocate money to the A5 project. It was a political decision by this Government to play into the hands of the Northern Ireland Executive.