Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have huge concerns about our minor rural roads in Carlow. I am working with a group of residents in Hacketstown, where there is one such minor road, a public road, that is absolutely unfit for purpose. I welcome the Minister's funding and I know her commitment, but we are now dealing with trees falling, we are dealing with huge climate change, we have flash flooding and we have drains that are blocked all the time. We are seeing this the whole time. I also ask that extra funding come to Carlow for these minor roads. We really need it. I believe we are not getting half as much as we should get.

I agree with what the Minister said that the Department of Transport should play a part in this. This is a huge issue across all counties, and I always feel the smaller counties such as Carlow are forgotten. I believe the Minister's commitment to this, but we have minor rural roads and laneways that really need to be done. They are really in a bad way.

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