Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to be parochial on this committee; I tend not to do that. However, in recent years since the scheme was reintroduced, my experience in my constituency of Fingal, which is nearly 500 km2, received nothing. When the Minister, Deputy Ring, announced a new allocation, I queried it with the council and was told that it had to fund it out of its own allocation. I am trying to understand if the criteria are precluding a council area with 1,100 km of rural non-primary roads or if it is only for local authorities that are deemed to be self-sufficient? I want to know who deems what self-sufficiency is. Maybe Mr. Mullaney can enlighten me.