Climate Action Plan
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-15
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Fergus O'Dowd (FG), Louth

A major transport capital project in my constituency, the Ardee bypass, has been held up for more than a year now because of a High Court action. The case does relate to environmental issues. It is important, though, that projects in the plan should be pushed forward. If there needs to be special sittings of courts or special courts to deal with issues concerning environmental and other climate change issues, then these should be set up urgently. The people of Ardee are faced every day with very large heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, polluting the atmosphere around people as they are walking up and down the town, going about their business, to and from schools, doing their shopping, etc. This is not good enough. I am not blaming the Minister personally, but we must have significant action from the Government to ensure there is a finite time for all these legal actions by having quick and due process in the courts.

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Sitting date: 2022-12-15