Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to refer to local roads. Since the downturn in 2008, there has been a big shortfall in local authority funding. Roads are funded partly by the authority itself and then by grants from central funding. Are there plans to increase the funding because roads are falling behind? I have seen reports stating they are falling behind by four or five years and that we will have a big problem if we do not start to increase funding.

Vehicle taxes in general are all going into the Exchequer. Is all the money from vehicle tax around the country spent on roads or was some syphoned off to Irish Water and such bodies? What is the division in places such as Leitrim, which would not have a high number of vehicles by comparison with the likes of Kilkenny? What way is it divided up?