Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

Part of the road safety strategy is based on pursuing a number of different issues, with education, enforcement and engineering comprising three legs of a four-leg strategy. This concept includes improving roads and ensuring new roads are constructed to the safest possible standard. Specific moneys are available to deal with blackspots on existing non-national roads in each county. Our roads are far from perfect, however.

As Minister for the Environment in 1995, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle instituted the roads restoration programme, which everybody thought would be the bees knees.

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