Michael Collins (Cork South-West, Independent Ireland Party)

They came to me, and they are in a bad way. There is more I can say.

I would appreciate if the Allihies and the Lyre roads would be reopened to the people who want to use them. Regardless of the use of them, they were being used by the local people. I travelled them the other day. You have to go around. In one situation in Allihies it takes one and a half miles to get to the house that is just on the other side of the collapsed road, which is insane. Everybody is walking away from it. The local authority is saying there is no money. It is unfair to say there is a lack of use. A road is put in to be used. It does not matter how many times it is used per day, whether it is 1,000 or 100 times. It is there to be used and it is the same with Lyre in Clonakilty. I met people there last week. That road is ten years closed and they are still asking me if it could please be opened, and if someone could fix the bridge. I will email the pictures to the Minister. They are appalling.