Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I appreciate the fact the money has doubled. Arising from previously, the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, set out to look at whether there is value for money. Its focused assessment, which the Minister referred to in a previous reply, included as part of recommendation 4 that it was necessary to carry out an estimate of "the scale of the relevant non-public road network" in Ireland. She said at that point that this recommendation was being considered along with others.

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That was 2020 and we are now in 2022. Deputy Pringle feels that his county is losing out in the allocation of funding because of the change to allocations based on geographical criteria. Saying exactly what the scale of the non-public roads is is complex, but where does the recommendation stand, given that the Minister stated it was under active consideration?

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