The Minister visited Tipperary town some years ago with Deputy Cahill and others regarding the bypass for Tipperary town. The people in Tipperary town and the surrounding areas are going grey waiting for this much-needed relief road to get the lorries and trucks out of the town. All the organisations - the chamber, March4Tipp and Jobs4Tipp - as well as Councillor Annemarie Ryan and all the other councillors and everybody else want this bypass. There is a plan for the N24, as the Minister will know, but that is not happening because the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has his foot on it. I want the Minister, Deputy Ryan, to take his foot off it and get the Minister, Deputy McGrath, and others to allocate the funding to provide, on the footprint of that new road, the bypass of Tipperary town in order to allow the people there to live, work, play and breathe clean air and to let the truckers avoid their frustrations and delays. It is a major route from Rosslare right up to Foynes and Galway and it must be done. It is up to the Minister to deliver. There is no point in coming for photo opportunities and photo shoots and not delivering this project. It has to be delivered or everyone will go grey.

I recognise the importance of this project. The Deputy has consistently advocated for it, as have Deputy Cahill and others. I have visited Tipperary town, as Deputy McGrath said, and have heard and seen at first hand the congestion and the urgent need for a bypass, which I think would be very positive and would free up the town for future growth and development and commercial and retail activity. I will ask the Minister to come back to the Deputy with a detailed update as to the status of the project, the next steps and how we can move it on.