Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is gross negligence on his behalf. People have died on the roads because funding has not been put into infrastructure. People have died on the roads because the local authorities do not have money to fill potholes on the basic roads. People have died on the roads because of rules that hedges cannot be cut at certain times of the year. Every road in Ireland - I said road only - should have 1 m in and straight up of hedge cutting allowed. It protects pedestrians, it protects cyclists and it protects the buses going to school. It protects tractors, transport and trucks. It protects everyone. That is what you do when you look at things from a common-sense point of view and try to save lives. What the Government has done today is an absolute joke. I will say it again. If that law reform Bill was introduced, a lot of Members over on that side of the House would not be on those benches. They would be somewhere else.

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