John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

I do not agree with the Deputy. The roads function and funding for roads, as Deputy Hogan knows too well, transferred to the Department of Transport. Deputy Hogan referred to websites earlier. I have looked at websites of various councils and have seen the budgets for winter maintenance. I discovered that Fine Gael, which has a majority on many of these councils, decided in its wisdom to cut the winter maintenance budget. Deputy Hogan can check this for himself. Deputy Hogan has a responsibility at local level because Fine Gael is in charge of those budgets.

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