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Fine Gael has called on the National Roads Authority (NRA) to clarify if a series of issues with the safety system installed in the Dublin Port Tunnel have been addressed.

Party transport spokesman Fergus O’Dowd said two reports into the systems – the first from October 2007 and the second from July 2008 – which he obtained under Freedom of Information indentified a series of problems.