Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I assure the Deputy that we will do everything we can. In honesty, the budget available to us is limited but we will try to reallocate any funding we can garner from other areas. The Deputy is right about the increase in costs. The increase in the cost of bitumen and other materials was very significant. It gives us a certain hope that those inflationary impacts are starting to reduce. We are seeing inflation, including inflation in building materials and road building equipment and materials, coming right down. I hope that will help us to address what I recognise to be a tight situation, which we will do everything we can to resolve.

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