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I heard over the weekend from a fairly reliable source that in fact the Greens asked Roche to sign off on Tara before they got into office and hence deflect the bullet from their own foot. The Greens could not get an agreement to prevent the proposed mortorway crossing in the vacinity of Tara and the only way they could prevent an embarrassing situation for their own new Green minister was to make an agreement during the negotiations that if the motorway was to proceed then Dick Roche had to do it before they entered office. Roche’s decision has meant Tara will be crossed but the Greens blushes will be saved and a stormy unstable intoduction for the new government was prevented.
Hopefully this will be the end of this Tara nonsense. The whole mess was created at the start. Im not a big fan of Mr. Roche. But finally sense may have prevailed. If the best advice the government can count on gives the go ahead, then so be it.
A lot of money has been squandered on this project. However I cannot place all the the blame for this one on the former minister. At the end of the day he can only rely on the advice given to him. Id be looking for the monkeys that surveyed the site originaly tho!
Its strange I was all for re-routing the motor way at the beginning but now that the facts are laid on the table, the only logical thing to do is continue as planned. Besides it would have been so much easier for Roche to put a halt to the works now. He has funnily gone up in my estimation. We need people in power who will make the hard decisions even at the expense of their own jobs.
I am not happy over the mess but I do prefer to see common sense win the day!
Good luck to Jon Gormely he has the potential to be a man who makes the hard decisions….time will tell.
