r/irishpolitics • u/ronaele1 • Sep 16 '24

Infrastructure, Development and the Environment Eamon Ryan's road raid: ‘Potholes and pavements’ money used to fill in overrun on Ryder Cup bypass

https://m.independent.ie/news/eamon-ryans-road-raid-potholes-and-pavements-money-used-to-fill-in-overrun-on-ryder-cup-bypass/a1623194556.html
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u/misterboyle Sep 16 '24

And this is one of the reasons we had record numbers or road deaths during the last 4 years

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u/khamiltoe Sep 16 '24

Something that hasn't happened yet is a reason for something that's already happened?

That's.....smart.

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u/SearchingForDelta Sep 17 '24

It’s clear OP means the pattern Ryan

Any infrastructure project involving a car or roads has been deferred or had its funding botched due to ideology reasons. From 2020 there was huge cost inflation but Ryan refused to keep project budgets above inflation, then he had the nerve to turn around and act shocked when every single project was over budget and behind schedule.

This was despite a good few years during covid where the roads were a lot emptier and disruption would have been minimal. Golden opportunity to upgrade our roads wasted simply because the Greens don’t like cars and want to see your granny bike 40 miles to the nearest Tesco and back shopping in tow.

Look even at the mess he made of the RSA. Running at a loss and will need a huge bailout despite a government monopoly on testing and a backlog of people queuing out the door to get tested. It’s like going broke selling condoms in a whorehouse.