Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask Deputy Lowry - and everyone else - in their interactions with council officials to ask them how much of the resources have been deployed so far this year. As I said, €417 million is available for local and regional roads this year and I understand only a fraction of that has been spent. I understand why that is, namely, because of the bad weather, but we want local authorities to get out there now in the good weather and with the longer evenings to spend the €417 million improving and restoring our regional and local roads. In the meantime the Government will work on additional funding following the storms.

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