Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for her contribution. It concerns the one area where road infrastructure needs to be built. The reason I suggest the eastern section should be done first is the western section is complicated because of the landscape. If there is a decision to work on all parts of the north ring road together, one will keep hearing the project is expensive and that the funding does not exist. If, however, one approaches it the way I propose, at least there will not be a bottleneck in Blackpool owing to traffic heading for a port. This is the priority. It is in this context I am raising the matter. I acknowledge it is under the remit of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, not that of the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne.