Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I compliment Deputy Troy on bringing this motion before us this evening. In the one minute available to me, I will give the Minister a synopsis of my life as a rural Deputy in east Galway. Yesterday afternoon, I went out to visit people in a place called Drim, Ballinakill, Kylebrack, Loughrea, County Galway. There are 130 houses on a stretch of road between the R351 and the R353. When I came off the Gort road to meet them in the local national school, I had to drive on the wrong side of the road - I am telling the Minister not one word of a lie - because of the unbelievable depth of the potholes on the left-hand side of the road arising the run off from the Slieve Aughty Mountains. The Minister might not believe me but when I arrived at the local national school, 53 families were there to meet me. It was one of the biggest crowds I have met on a Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. Those families were protesting about the lack of investment in the roads. I ask the Minister to listen to the wishes of Deputy Troy and all my colleagues because emergency funding is urgently needed not just for Drim and Kylebrack but for all of east Galway.

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