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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Just before the Minister responds, I want to point out that this is a question on Cork. I am enforcing the rules here.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is your question on Cork?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: It is a long way from Dundalk to Midleton. We are committed to providing the funding. We do not have a substantiated funding request as yet but as soon as we do, we will be able to fund Cork County Council. We do not fund in advance of the cost estimates and claims coming in but we will provide the funding that is necessary. It takes time but there are precedents here. The Deputy...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
David Stanton: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of extra funding support his Department has provided to Cork County Council for the repair of roads damaged by flooding in the wake of Storm Babet; his plans to provide further allocations in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13047/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
David Stanton: Five months ago, we experienced the consequences of climate change in a devastating way in east Cork with Storm Babet, which led to businesses, homes, roads and so on being devastated. I have two questions. First, how much extra funding has the Department provided to Cork County Council to date for the repair of roads damaged by the flooding? Second, what plans has the Minister to provide...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: ...restoration of the road network was essential from a safety perspective as well as for maintaining key social and economic connections. Last year, my Department provided an additional €350,000 to Cork County Council to begin some emergency rehabilitation works to facilitate the opening of some key roads for access to schools and communities. Cork County Council sought additional...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
David Stanton: ...been made from the Exchequer to address the damage done in Donegal. Does the Minister intend to ask for a special allocation from the Department of public expenditure and reform to cover the damage to roads in Cork? I understand that the current estimate is between €50 million and €55 million. Has the Minister that amount of money at his disposal in his Department or will...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: ...takes time to assess the damage and scale up the response. The initial response was a €350,000 allocation, mainly to assess the nature and design of the works. The Deputy is right, in that Cork County Council initially estimated a cost of in or around €51 million, but there was no proper estimate involved in that. It was just a first assessment. The council has...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
David Stanton: ...roads in question remain virtually impassable. I have driven on them myself and they are in an awful condition. They will require additional funding. Has the €13 million been handed over to Cork County Council? Does the Minister not agree that there is a significant gap between €13 million and €50 million? The council does not have the funding to do it. This...