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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)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Can I come in?
- 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)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: It relates to funding and flooding.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: You will have to come in on a different question. I am enforcing the rules here.
- 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)
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- 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: The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Work on these roads is funded from councils’ own resources and supplemented by State road grants. The Department emphasises to local authorities each year the importance of setting aside a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. Will he provide some figures for how much additional funding has been indicated to his Department? He spoke about a downward revision. How much is that? Did he say that the council had already received €13 million or €30 million? I am not clear on that, as I could not hear him properly. The Taoiseach told me in the Dáil...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I went to Midleton the day after the storm. The floods were just receding. It was remarkable to see the work of the local authorities and various other State agencies managing the crippling impact on the town and surrounding areas, including Glanmire. We committed then, and I recommit here today, that whatever was needed to restore the roads and provide connectivity, safety and so on would...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. He will have a chance to contribute again.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
Eamon Ryan: We will work closely with the council to ensure that we solve the problems.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (21 Mar 2024)
David Stanton: I acknowledge that the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, visited Midleton. Many of the rural 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...