An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2022-11-17
============================================================

Malcolm Byrne (FF), Cultural and Educational Panel

I raise the ongoing development of Rosslare Europort. It has been one of the success stories of Brexit and there are very few of those. We have seen an increase in freight trade to continental Europe from Rosslare of up to 450% on pre-Brexit annual turnaround. One of the challenges, however, is that the M11 that links Dublin with Rosslare Europort is a great road as far as the village of Oylegate.
At that point, though, it forces all of the traffic through the village. The road infrastructure linking the port is not adequate. I have raised this issue previously, including as a Commencement matter. It is referred to in the national development plan, but if we are serious about developing our ports further, particularly our links to continental Europe - there are now enhanced routes to France and Spain from Rosslare - then we have to have good quality road infrastructure to link them. I call for a series of statements on road projects under the national development plan. Will the Acting Leader ask the Minister for Transport to provide us with an update on this critical piece of infrastructure?

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2022-11-17/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:18+00:00
Sitting date: 2022-11-17