TD Martin Browne has asked Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring if the government will commit to providing the investment needed for the upgrading of the N24, given the infrastructural needs of the region post-Brexit.
The Sinn Féin TD raised the matter as he asked the minister when a bypass of Tipperary town will be provided.
He pointed out that a bypass was first mooted decades ago, but the level of traffic passing through Tipperary town and the ensuing pollution has been allowed to continue by successive ministers and ministers-of-state.
Like FF TD Jackie Cahill, Deputy Browne said that plans need to be enacted straight away for a ring road of the town.
He too opposed the idea of an inner relief road.
Deputy Browne said that a ring road could eventually be linked to a bypass and gave Cashel as an example of this.
He went on to claim that this kind of investment for Tipperary town and in the N24 Limerick/Waterford route, would be important to the connectivity of the region and to regional development ‘as it is the link between Shannon Airport and Rosslare Harbour’.
