David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is where they work with the local authority, they pay money in and they do a road up, but I am talking about where a pothole opens up on the road, there is a complaint made, and three weeks later when it is a crater someone comes along and fills it. If it was filled when it appeared first, the job would be done and it might not turn into a mini-volcano on the side of the road. These are the kinds of issue to which I am referring. We need to think outside the box when one does not have the resources and manpower. Currently, local authorities do not have the manpower to do the work.

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