Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

As I said to the Deputy, the allocation for safety to local authorities has not been touched. It is the same as it was last year. Works will take place in 257 different locations across all the local authorities this year. Work has already taken place in approximately 1,700 or 1,800 danger spots, or accident blackspots as we used to call them.

The Deputy wants to have it every way. His party suggested we cut services and the amounts being spent by €2.5 billion prior to April's budget. I would not have had any road funding for local authorities if I had gone-----

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