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

I will give the updated figures on Galway. It has secured combined funding of over €3.26 billion over the past two years. Forty-nine roads were upgraded in 2021 and a further 50 this year.

Of course, resources are finite but I am tackling the situation. I doubled the LIS roads allocation originally envisaged in last year's budget and this year alone, I invested €22 million in the scheme.

We are making progress in some counties. I was talking to those in Leitrim County Council the other day and it has cleared its backlog, which is good. Some other counties have got it well down. Like Deputy Canney, there are a lot of lanes in my county of Monaghan, and in Cavan. Those local authorities still have a considerably long list. We are working with the local authorities to get a little more detail around the lists because, as the Deputy will be aware, even at local authority level, even in the municipal areas, there are different lists and different lengths of lists.

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