Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My apologies to Deputy Ó Cuív as I did not answer him because I ran out of time. I will ask every county council. My officials are engaging with the local authorities and I will find out how many such applications are outstanding and what the story is. Believe you me, one gets a great deal of varied information from the different local authorities because they have different ways of working things out and of carrying out assessments. In any event, I will ask them and I will be delighted to get the support of all of the Deputies in getting more money for the LIS programme. If I get more money, it will be allocated across the country. I am doing my best. As Deputy Ó Cuív has said, it was always a Department of Transport fund, but in fairness to the then Minister, Deputy Ring, in 2017 he reopened the programme and we got the ball rolling. We have a long list, it is in every county in the country and I know all about it. It is something of which I am very conscious. I would appreciate the Deputies' support in trying to get more money for this particular fund and I look forward to working with the Deputies.

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