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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: I support Deputy Smith. He has been a consistent advocate for investment in local roads. Not a week goes by that he does not raise the matter. I lend my support to his requests. As the Minister will know, Cork has the largest road network in the country. The underinvestment in our roads down there is apparent for all to see. The county council is still waiting on funding to deal with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I absolutely agree with Deputies Smith and O'Sullivan. Investment in maintaining our roads is our first priority and the best investment because, as the Deputy has said, if you let them go, it costs much more to restore them. There are also great safety and other benefits to properly surfaced and dressed roads. Funding for road maintenance has increased by 20% over the last four years, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: Unfortunately, the cost of construction products and energy costs have gone up dramatically.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: That is true but there was an increase in the budget. Last year, Cavan got a budget of €18.14 million, an increase of €629,000 on the previous year. Monaghan got some €17 million, an increase of €834,000 on the previous year. I have met the officials and engineers in the county councils in Monaghan and Cavan and they do a very good job. They are highly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: We are drumlin territory.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I understand that. The area also has a very dispersed and wide network of roads but so do other counties. Cork is a good example. To answer Deputy O'Sullivan's question, we are working with Cork County Council to provide the funding it needs for the roads that were affected by the flooding in Glanmire and Midleton. The resources are somewhat constrained by how quickly the council can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Brendan Smith: I again appeal to the Minister to give particular consideration to the request of councils like those of Cavan and Monaghan. As he will know from the officials and from our councillors, the councils do a very good job but we have very serious problems at the minute. The incessant rainfall of the past few years, the increased cost of energy and the resultant increase in the cost of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: 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....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Network (16 May 2024)

Questions Nos. 70 to 72, inclusive, taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Rail Network

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received a detailed update from Iarnród Éireann on the condition of the railway line from Collooney to Athenry, covering issues such as the integrity of the permanent way in terms of embankments, bridges, culverts and growth along the line, lack of encroachment and so on; whether there is any significant...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did Iarnród Éireann do a survey on the line from Collooney to Athenry? Did it find any difference in the condition of the line north of Claremorris compared with the line south of Claremorris?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have an answer to the Deputy's question as to the survey work that was done. There are sections on the line from Claremorris to Athenry that will require some reasonably significant civil works. For example, roads have been built across the line in the intervening period. However, these issues can be overcome. I cannot recall the exact period in which the section from Claremorris...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not the case. The rail report-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: If that is not the case, it is all the better for us if we are to deliver a greenway on the line. The benefit of this is that it would preserve the line in public ownership. It is not included in the strategic rail review and the introduction of a greenway would not be hindered. If held in public ownership into the future, that line provides a potentially very beneficial future asset....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It was not included on the false premise that the line did not exist.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I do not believe that only the quality of the line was considered. There are so many different investment requirements that there has to be some prioritisation. 12 o’clock If the line is, as the Deputy said, still intact and in public ownership, that would help and for it to be maintained in that way is the first priority.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Éireann (16 May 2024)

Bus Éireann

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Éireann (16 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide on update on what engagement his Department has had with Bus Éireann to address the impact of the shortage of drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22022/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Éireann (16 May 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: Will the Minister provide an update on what engagement his Department has had with Bus Éireann to address the impact of the shortage of drivers on the service?