Proposals to deliver an upgraded East-West route linking Dundalk to Sligo and taking in Cavan will involve linking elements of the national road network and regional roads along as direct a route as possible.
This is what the Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan told Cavan Fianna Fail deputy, Niamh Smyth during a parliamentary question in which she asked what the position was on the East West Link.
She said the route was 'urgently needed' in the north west.
Deputy Smyth was told that the route involved upgrade and realignment works on the regional routes from Dundalk to Cavan and on national routes from Cavan to Sligo.
Works on regional routes around the Link will be funded from the local authority's own resources and supplemented by State road grants.
Deputy Smyth heard that the Department of Transport provided funding to Cavan County Council - acting as lead authority with Monaghan and Louth County Councils of over €2m from 2007 to 2014 to progress the regional road element of the project to preliminary design.
