Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael)

I wish to raise the issue of local improvement schemes, LIS, that have been suspended and I ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, to reconsider them. Such schemes are operated by county councils in different regions and only cost approximately €5 million. They entail the annual repair of roads and boreens to farmhouses and those who live off the main road. Each council area might carry out two or three such schemes each year. As already stated, this only cost €5 million. It would be a great help to the people in the areas to which I refer if the scheme were to continue. I will be making contact with the Minister in respect of this matter and I ask the Leader to do likewise in order that we might get the decision reversed.