A Labour TD has described as outrageous the delay in publishing the long-awaited Land Use and Transportation study for Galway city and county. The study, launched by Galway Co Council and Corporation in March 1997, is due to be brought before the two local authorities next month. Yesterday Mr Michael D. Higgins said he would put a priority question before the Minister for the Environment, Mr Dempsey, if a publication date for the report was not met before the resumption of the Dail.
"It seems to defy all logic that the corporation at their last meeting pressed ahead with the adoption of the new City Development Plan, which will be in place for the next five years, in the full knowledge that the results of the study were available, but not published," said Mr Higgins.