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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 25 Mar 1971

Vol. 252 No. 9

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Donegal Roads.

67.

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will re-examine the application by Donegal County Council for the re-classification of the Bridgend-Buncrana road.

68.

asked the Minister for Local Government if he will re-examine the application by Donegal County Council for the re-classification of the Dunkineely-Killybegs road.

With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 67 and 68 together.

Might I request you, Sir, to ask the Minister to take these questions separately.

I propose taking them together.

If the Minister proposes taking them together there is nothing the Chair can do.

I assume that the Deputy has in mind the representations of the Donegal County Council to have the roads referred to in the question classified as national secondary roads. The designation of the roads to form the national systems has been completed and my final decisions thereon were notified to road authorities on 6th August, 1970. Those decisions were reached following several comprehensive reviews of the classification proposals, in the course of which full consideration was given to the representations and views received from the road authorities, including the Donegal County Council, and other interested bodies. I am satisfied that there is no justification for altering the decision already conveyed to the Donegal County Council which was to the effect that the inclusion of the roads referred to in the national road network would not be warranted.

I might add that studies are at present in progress with a view to identifying the roads to form the regional road systems and that, at a later stage, the Donegal County Council will be consulted in relation to the outcome of those studies in so far as they affect the roads in their area.

Might I ask the Minister if he has consulted with his Parliamentary Secretary, Deputy Cunningham, in connection with the Bridgend/ Buncrana road?

I have answered the question.

The Minister says he gave due consideration to the representations made to him. I am asking him if his Parliamentary Secretary, Deputy Cunningham, is one of the people who made representations to him?

Sin ceist eile.

I take it the Minister consulted with the Minister for Labour and Social Welfare, Deputy Brennan, in connection with the Killybegs/ Dunkineely road. It is remarkable that the Minister for Labour and Social Welfare lives in Dunkineely——

The Deputy is making a speech.

——and the Minister's Parliamentary Secretary lives in Bridgend. Every member of the county council agrees that the representations made by the local authority to the Department of Local Government were just and reasonable.

These are not through roads.

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