Irish government to fulfil its financial commitment to A5

The Irish government is getting ready to fulfill its funding promise of £400m for the A5.

The project is to make the road between Londonderry and Dublin better.

An important Irish government official told the BBC that all the money will be given back after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

The taoiseach was asked last week to give more money to the government, and people hoped he would.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said in the Dáil that they will think about giving more money to finish the big upgrade, because the funding was cut a lot during the financial crash.

In answer to a question from the Sinn Féin TD for Donegal, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Mr. Varadkar said the government would soon be able to “promise more money for the A5 road. ”

“We didn’t fully cancel our promise, but we did cut it a lot because of the financial crisis here,” he said.

“The situation has changed, and our country is now in a much better financial position. The Northern Ireland Executive is also operating again. ”

“I talked to Minister O’Dowd about this when I visited Stormont last Monday. ”

“We can make a new promise to give money to the A5 in the next week or two. ”

The Irish government promised to give $400 million for a big road project, but later they said they would give less.

The road is very dangerous on the island of Ireland. More than 50 people have died there since 2006.

The project to improve the road by making it wider has not started yet, even though it was announced 16 years ago. There have been many delays.

If done, the big update would be the biggest road ever made in Northern Ireland, with a cost of about £1. 6 billion