Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am focusing on it. Will the Minister, as the Minister with responsibility for safety on our roads, use his power to ensure that the local authorities will go back cutting hedges and to the basic work they used to do long ago when we had section men who went out every day? They were proud of keeping their sections of road clear of water and keeping the hedges cut. This work has been neglected and is causing accidents. It is about time somebody told the truth in here and said that is what is causing many accidents. If the Minister asked gardaí they would not be long about telling him what is causing accidents. Many of them would privately tell him something completely different from what the public is being fed and what many in the media say, that the Minister is right and everyone else, including us, is wrong. I can only plead with the Minister on behalf of the people I am elected to represent.

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