Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister about local improvement schemes. I acknowledge the effort she has made to provide funding over recent years to try to clear the lists nationwide but almost one in five of all roads that are awaiting improvements nationwide are in County Kerry and we need substantially more funding to try to clear the list. As it currently stands, there are more than 600 roads for which people are waiting. These are people who paid their taxes and who are trying to travel these roads in their cars, on bicycles and with prams day in, day out and the roads are in appalling condition. They are non-council roads, are not strictly private roads and they need to be improved. In this year's allocations, I ask the Minister to particularly look at counties where there is a huge waiting list and see whether something better could be done for those counties to try to eat into the list in 2024.

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