In 2008, the Government reaffirmed its support for the route, with construction to happen between 2011 and 2019.
The road is planned to run roughly run from south of Drogheda then south of Navan, then by Enfield, to east of Newbridge at the confluence of the M7 and M9 motorways.
[1] In October 2015, the draft Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy deferred plans for the road to after 2035.
[2] The land for the motorway is reserved by Meath County Council development plan (2011).
[3][needs update] The Tara Skryne Preservation group say that this will repeat the mistakes of the M3 development, by locking in a route which is too close to the Tara archaeological landscape and the Newgrange UNESCO World Heritage site[4]