Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The recent storms have done so much damage to the rural road network, and right across the country various councils have been doing repair works. They have been applying for top-up funding to carry out those essential works. As regards the local improvement scheme, the council will not do any repair work on those roads at the end of the network. Those roads are just as likely to have taken the same hammering as any other roads around the county. There is an acknowledgment that there is a need for additional funding, and the local authorities have been applying for that. It would follow reasonable logic that additional funding would be made available for that part of the road network, that is, that last couple of hundred metres into people's homes. Irrespective of what badge is on it, whether the Department of Transport, the Department of Rural and Community Development or whoever else, can additional funding be made available for those roads in recognition of the huge damage flooding has done in so many areas?

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