Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Roads Infrastructure Programme: Discussion.
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Nolan:
The very fact that we filter out from 800 to 900 applications that involve road safety issues to a final 37 appeals is a demonstration that there is a great deal of engagement. There are some difficult cases at which we might look. I give a commitment to come back to the Chairman on that issue.
I will respond to the question on the N22 Ballyvourney-Macroom road. There were tenders for fencing. We have a whole series of advance works contracts planned for 2017 for that scheme. It is quite a long scheme and we have three archeological contracts, a hedgerow removal contract and some service diversion contracts. There is also the contract for fencing. We have much advance works activity in the next year on the Ballyvourney-Macroom road that will be evident to the public. That is in preparation for a mains works contract which will happen in a few years later.
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