Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

Then we go to Caherdaniel and Castlecove, still on the Ring of Kerry, and the surface is dreadful. I am asking the officials to deal with that because it is terrible. It is not fit for vehicles of any kind. It would break what you have. Continuing to Sneem village, a community that we will say is far away from everywhere, work had begun between Parknasilla and Blackwater Bridge in the early 2000s and then with the bust, it is there since. In 2023, there was a section finished off and we were promised that the specific improvement work would take place the following year, 2024. We are almost at the end of 2025 now and nothing has happened. Continuing over to Blackwater Bridge, before the bridge, I know myself that if you are coming from the Kenmare side with a low loader, the next thing is that a car is inside between yourself and the ditch on the right hand side, in under the low loader. If you try to go back, there are cars behind you and the road is blocked on a busy summer's day. I feel that this part of our world is totally neglected. I am asking the officials to remember it. I will be putting pressure on from the political side. We feel we have been left behind for whatever reason. Sneem is a community in itself, along with being on the Ring of Kerry route. Those people deserve a proper road the very same as the people up here in Dublin 4. I ask the officials to remember these things favourably and thank them for the work they do.