Campaigning in Enniskillen, TUV Leader Jim Allister QC MEP said the Stormont Executive had lamentably failed Fermanagh’s road infrastructure needs. “Enniskillen”, he said “was crying out for a proper road connection to Belfast, but instead of prioritising this need, the Executive prefers to waste valuable resources on the far less beneficial notion of an Aughnacloy to Londonderry route. How can £500 million be found for this project, while drivers from Fermanagh have to put up with the tortuous single carriageway to Ballygawley”, asked Mr Allister.

The MEP continued, “Though Fermanagh has two Ministers in the Executive, it has been sold short in favour of a politicised proposal for a north/south road, whose primary gain will be to speed Dubliners to their Donegal holiday homes! To my mind a proper east-west link across Northern Ireland is far more important. Economic development follows road infrastructure, so Fermanagh is not only losing out on adequate road links, but on the economic development which would flow from such a road network.”