Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which he has been raising consistently over the past while. I have spoken to the Minister in respect of this and we are very conscious of the need for maintenance of country, rural and regional roads. We will continue to pursue this in terms of any available resources we can allocate this year to deal with the fact that the costs of the materials that go into repairing a road, repurposing a road, etc., have gone up. We need to deal with that.

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