Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is lovely. That is fine. I go back to transport. The funding for local authorities has been dealt with by other colleagues here.

We met Mr. Paul Lemass at a meeting recently on the funding of the county councils, at which it was pointed out that Galway County Council is the third lowest funded local authority in the country due to the formula that is used. There was to be a follow up on that issue. I know my colleague might have a more nuanced approach to it. We are being told by the county manager that Galway County Council simply cannot go on with the level of funding it is receiving. That impacts at a meaningful level in people's lives and we see that basic roads in Connemara are falling apart. I do not want to be parochial. I am raising the matter as an issue of funding for a local authority by a formula that is Kafkaesque, leaving the county council as the third lowest funded county council in the country, in a position that it cannot repair that road because it does not have sufficient funding.