Road Projects
Dail Éireann — 2026-03-05
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Robert Troy (FF), Longford-Westmeath

I will acknowledge that the Deputy makes a very valid case to ensure we have the right infrastructure in place to serve major companies that are contributing significantly in terms of corporation tax to our country and employment for Cork and across different regions in Ireland. I have been given a document this evening to outline on behalf of the Minister for Transport the current timelines in place. The Deputy will be aware that the Government and the Minister, Deputy Chambers, in the Department of public expenditure and reform, have published a document on accelerating the implementation of critical pieces of infrastructure. I honestly do not know if that will have an impact on the delivery of what the Deputy rightly identified as a critical infrastructure in relation to this northern distributor road. There was an acknowledgement on behalf of the Government that it was taking too long for infrastructural projects to be rolled out. As a consequence of that, a group was formed, an action plan has been published and those actions are there to be implemented to ensure we reduce the time it takes to put in critical infrastructure. I honestly do not know whether that will improve the situation the Deputy spoke about. I hope it will. I will bring back the points the Deputy has raised here to the Minister, Deputy O'Brien. I am sure the Deputy will use the opportunity within his own parliamentary party, which is a member of this Government, to also articulate the points made here this evening.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-05