Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In respect of the roads budget, and I acknowledge there is an increase, does the Department factor in the exceptional weather such as that we experienced in the past number of months? The allocation that came in last January is as good as spent. There has been major infrastructural damage to our regional byroads. Does the Department provide any exceptional funding to sort out these roads and get them up to some safety standards? Otherwise, we will keep falling behind, as the Department has acknowledged. We are falling with regard to maintaining our roads because of funding. Does the Department make exceptional funding available because of the exceptional weather?