GREALISH TO LOBBY TRANSPORT MINISTER FOR ROADS SHORTFALL

Date Published: 28-Apr-2009

Galway West TD Noel Grealish is to lobby the Minister for Transport for extra funding for Galway's roads when he visits here on Friday. It follows a massive cutback of 9 million euro announced by the county manager Martina Maloney at this week's county council meeting, and the passing of a motion calling on the Department of Transport to reinstate the 9 million 50 Galway roads have been dropped from the 2009 programme, with the funding going down to 24 million euro, due to cutbacks made at the Department in DublinNotice was also given to 28 outdoor staff in the Roads Department. It prompted over three hundred SIPTU members with the county council to last night vote in favour of industrial action. Transport Minister Noel Dempsey is coming to Galway on Friday to officially launch the new Dublin Road Bus lane at 2pm.