Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians from the Cavan/Monaghan constituency “must have stayed silent” on the decision of the Government to withdraw funding from the major N2 road development project from Clontibret to the Border, Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy told the Dáil this week. During a debate on transport issues, Deputy Carthy described the road network in Co Monaghan as “in a deplorable state”.
The Sinn Féin Cavan/Monaghan Deputy was scathing in his criticism of Transport Minister Eamon Ryan TD, describing him as “out of his depth” and criticising the fact that in his contribution to the debate the Minister had failed to make any mention of the serious disruption recently experienced at Dublin Airport. Deputy Carthy stated: “This is some farce. We are here to make statements on transport and the Minister for Transport is not even here. He has left.
The Minister of State who is here is not even assigned to the Department of Transport. “When the Minister did speak, he spoke for 20 minutes without reference to the one aspect of transport policy that the whole country is talking about, that is, the debacle at Dublin Airport. Even if we were to take into…
