Airport Policy
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-02
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Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (SF), Donegal

I will reiterate some of my points. Disastrously, the A5 project has been stuck in a quagmire for too long. In fairness to the Irish Government, in the St. Andrews Agreement, it committed to co-funding that project. I am hopeful that it will eventually get started and that the Irish Government will co-fund it. There is a lot of precedent for the Irish Government co-funding strategically important transport projects in the North of Ireland that are of value to all of our citizens on the island. Among our people in Donegal, Derry and west Tyrone, there is a collective sense that they do not have equal access to transport infrastructure with regard to rail, roads and airports. For the foreseeable future, it will be important for the Irish Government to co-fund the airport in Derry. I hope that, in due course, we will have equality of infrastructure with the rest of the island.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-02