Eamon Ryan

It doesn't work.

All that traffic has to go somewhere.

So what then you have to do is you have to build a ring road around Cork on the north side and you're guaranteeing that Cork makes the same mistakes Dublin made.

We have, first of all, I would do a bypass of Charleville and Buttoven.

Those towns need to be bypassed.

Absolutely.

Improve the safety of the roads.

That's where we should be spending the roads budget.

There's towns all over the country that are clogged with traffic.

Tipperary Town.

Loads of examples which would benefit from the roads budget being spent on bypasses.

But in Cork City, just to take that as an example, we already started upgrading under our time of government the Metropolitan Railway.

And it's absolutely ready to go.

Irish Rail could start tomorrow putting new stations in right across the north side of Cork and you build Cork along that rail line.

On the south side and actually connecting to the north side, you build Cork-Lewis.

You build the Bus Connects.

And it's the same in Limerick and Waterford.

We have the public transport projects ready to go.

We don't have the money.

In the revision of the National Development Plan, which was agreed last year, there is not the money for the Bus Connects projects and for the rail projects, which are ready to go in Dublin, in Cork, in Limerick and in Waterford and Galway.