Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

All right, but before that will the Minister consider the merit in what I said about local authorities? They are not using their facility to cut dangerous hedges. What they have stated several times is that it is landowners’ responsibility to cut hedges and that they do not have the funding to cut. I do not know whether the Minister can make funding available but funding is probably the real reason dangerous hedges have not been cut. I hope that the Minister’s Department or another Department will make funding available to local authorities to cut these hedges, which are not being cut year after year and cause injuries and fatalities on our roads.