Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)

I am more than wiling to listen to suggestions the Deputy has about more effective ways to raise finance and so on. There are two sides to this argument. It can be argued on the one hand that the most effective way to ensure sufficient funds for the maintenance and upkeep of roads is to ask those who use the roads to pay for them rather than asking the taxpayer to do so.

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