Madam, - In 1993, Drumcondra Residents started to campaign for the Dublin Port Access and Eastern Relief Route.
We wanted this as part of a mutually reinforcing set of measures to enhance our areas by removing the stress and dangers of excessive traffic. Now, 10 years later, not one of these measures is yet in place.
The issues that concerned us then have not gone away. Nor have we!
In 1994, Mr Bertie Ahern, then Minister for Finance, announced the Government's decision to build the Dublin Port Tunnel. His audience - at a Dublin Chamber of Commerce dinner - applauded loudly.
Unlike us, Jerry Kiersey, Dr Sean Barrett and those involved in the Transport Umbrella Group (TUG), were conspicuous by their absence from the public inquiry on the Port Tunnel held in 1999.
Nobody stopped them making their case for a higher tunnel then. What were they doing during the years of consultation after the Government decision?
The design was specified in two environmental impact statements. Did TUG members read them?
Mr Brennan should stop wasting our money on Port Tunnel studies. Years of indecision have driven costs up. The need now is to finish off what the Government (in which Seamus Brennan was a Minister for State) decided to do. - Yours, etc.,
DONAL Ó BROLCHÁIN, Secretary, Drumcondra 2005, Griffith Avenue,
Dublin 9.