The N24 Cahir to Waterford project has been further delayed. We were supposed to get news of the preferred route by quarter 2 of 2023 but that has now been put back to quarter 1 or 2 of 2024. This is unacceptable, especially in light of all of the road deaths and the information Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, has given to the Minister for Transport about the number of deaths and serious injuries that will occur on this route. Coupled with that is the fact that the whole area along the proposed routes is sterilised from north of Cahir right down to Waterford city. People living along those four routes, across a wide band, cannot get planning permission for anything, from a henhouse to a dwelling house or a farm building. Everything is held up, including development. What is the delay on this? I know there were difficulties getting funding for consultants to keep going on the project earlier this year. They were supposed to have got the money. Did they get the money or not? This stop-start business on the N24 project from Limerick Junction to Waterford, which is so badly needed, is not acceptable. We have had two or three fatalities on the road already this year. We need to get this on track and also to allow people to live their lives in the areas being studied.

I thank the Deputy for raising the upgrade of the N24. I appreciate the enormous inconvenience caused to people by having a very wide reservation or a number of routes and that needs to be narrowed down. I do not have an update on it at the moment but I will get one from the Department of Transport and pass it on to him.

Baineann mo cheist le Gaillimh arís agus leis an athbhreithniú atá ar siúl ó thaobh cúrsaí iompair. Tá siad i mbun oibre ar straitéis nua don chóras iompair i nGaillimh agus mar chuid de sin tá sé ceaptha staidéar féidearthachta a chríochnú. Baineann mo cheist leis sin agus leis an gcumarsáid nach bhfuil ag tarlú ó thaobh na ndaoine ar an talamh atá taobh thiar den staidéar féidearthachta sin.

In the few seconds I have left, there was a review of transport in Galway. Part of that review is a feasibility study for light rail for which we have campaigned for a very long time. About six years ago, we collected 24,000 signatures and while it is good news that it is going to happen, it is not clear at all what consultation has taken place on the ground, particularly with GLUAS, the organisation that has pushed for this for a very long time. There was a meeting in June but no further meetings have taken place.

I am afraid I do not know what the up-to-date position is in relation to that but I will let the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, know that it was raised here today and ask him to get back to the Deputy directly.