M6 - Galway City Ring Road [planning decision pending]

As I write this Dempsey is golfing in Georgia at our expense

It appears that my suspicions expressed in this post in january were correct ....but it is much worse than that

Basically the government can ask the EU to 'clarify' aspects of law and I was correct in that they go to the Supreme Court and that the Supreme Court sends an Article 267 Referral off to Brussels for clarification. The appeal is to be lodged before the summer and heard in the autumn.

IE the government appear to appeal against themselves, specifically about the Galway City Bypass

The problem is that Dempsey is letting Gormley write the menu. The greens have reamed the case with an enormous series of questions and interpretations of various habitat and strategic environment directives.

The Supreme Court is then expected to send this lot to Brussels in late 2010 and Brussels will sit on them for a year ( or two) while it considers the questions. The Supreme Court will hopefully only send one or two specific questions but Dempsey and Gormley would seemingly like them to send lots so that they can blame Brussels for every imaginable holdup between now and possibly as long as end 2012.

But my understanding is that Dempsey has completely keeled over to Gormley and that the questions put to the Supreme Court for referral will be far more wide ranging than a few grey areas that came up in the planning of the Galway Bypass.

Hopefully the Supreme Court tells Gormley and Dempsey to bugger off on most of these questions

If anybody knows Grealish tell Grealish to ask this parliamentary question of Gormley.

"Why is the department of the environment bringing a court case against itself to the supreme court on the Galway Bypass and when will this case be heard?"

You could always ask O Brolcháin to ask the exact same question of Gormley in the Seanad

Frank Fahey sent a long recent letter from Dempsey to Fahey around the FF Cumainn and it leaked.

churchview wrote: »

Fair dues to Frankeen. I was never previously a fan, but he seems to be doing his level best with this one. It's a pity that some of the other local TDs and councillors don't step up to the plate on this one as well.

Frankeen is pinging letters over and about. That is all. He is not _doing_ anything except transmitting the latest excuses to Galway. The latest excuse is that it will be sent to Europe.

I understand it cannot EVEN go to the Supreme Court until Dermot Ahern changes the practice rules of the Supreme Court or something along those lines. Then the dept of the Environment can take itself to the Supreme Court and flagellate itself in public and hope the Supreme Court takes pity on them and refers to Brussels.

If the Supreme Court refuses....and they are entitled to...Gormley will refer the matter by another means anyway although that is constitutionally fraught and will merely mean that Gormley will spend a year getting 'advice' or some such BS.

Remember that in Irish law they are clear to build the eastern half today from the N59 to the Airport but simply won't find the money to do it !!!! It's just that Dempsey and especially Gormley want to dick around legally in Brussels instead of finding the money and building that part of the bypass.

If the Supreme Court agrees to refer then the matter will lie around Brussels until at least this time next year and probably until after the 2012 election.

Back in Dempseys lap the redesign of the western section in Tonabrocky is progressing splendidly NOT, no new routes are being evaluated at present and no new EIS is being planned. The Bypass is unfunded in 2010.

Tell Frank to tell Dermot Ahern to get the finger out if you see him, that would be a start

Right now we are 2 years away from issuing a TENDER on the Galway Bypass and at least 3 years away form diggers a digging. Fact.

Fahey is hoping nobody notices, especially with an election coming up.

Fahey got rid of that website of his http://www.isupportthebypass.com/

Remember that one ??

churchview wrote: »

So is the letter Fahey (or whoever) leaked, just Dempsey's excuses to Fahey.

Precisely. Fahey is free to write to Gormley too but never does. Fahey could take a delegation with him to meet Gormley. I am sure 1000's of Galway people would happily give out to Gormley and the greens for being morons were they asked to help.

Is Fahey taking him to task on any of these do you know?

Nope. At this moment in time Dempsey is free to build the east/north section of the bypass but Fahey is constantly trying to obfuscate that with a 2 step BS exchange between him and Dempsey.

Dempsey funded no work whatsoever on the bypass in 2010 and Fahey is scrambling around trying to hide that and make himself look good too