Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

Unit costs across the local authorities vary considerably. The NRA will advise me on best practice and we will try to have it applied across all local authorities. It will also administer the schemes. The local authority will send its proposed schemes to the authority and it, in turn, makes recommendations to me, like my departmental officials used to do.

There was never any question of anything other than the five major inter-urban roads. The next priority is the Atlantic corridor which will link the country from Letterkenny to Waterford.

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