Shane McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)

I just wanted to make that point. Regarding the roads, I realise the cold weather crisis is over, but the Minister and I are both realists, as well as coming from the same county. We both travel to other counties and the damage to the roads over and above normal as a result of the weather conditions we have had is only now becoming evident. No matter how it is done, in the current circumstances, whether through lack of funding or the bodies working on the ground, it is simply not good enough to say the allocations are in place and this what the local authorities can do.

I know that I am slow in getting to my point, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

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