Trevor Sargent
Question:4 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the town of Balbriggan in Fingal, County Dublin has an incomplete inner relief road which will cost about £1 million to finish; if, in view of the fact that 855 people out of the 2,000 families in the town are unemployed and that over the last ten years 30 per cent of the shops in the main street have closed and that this modest road will give access to land already zoned industrial as well as ease congestion from new traffic flows caused by Euroroute section soon to be constructed, 2.75 km east of the town, he will in keeping with the advice of the IDA, the technical staff of Dublin County Council and all public representatives for the area sanction a special improvement work grant, similar to the £1.75 million grant given to provide road access for Shannon Aerospace recently, to complete this modest road and help alleviate unemployment.