Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I withdraw my comment. I had no right to say it, but the information was leaked, and obviously from the Department's side. Who else would have had it? It did the Minister, his Department and the review no service. I will leave it at that.

Roads funding is the elephant in the room. The roads are gone to the dogs. When I was mayor of Kerry in 2004, we embarked on a ten-year roads programme that finally got the roads in my county into shape. All of that work has been undone. Our funding has fallen by 48% and there is no money for local improvement schemes. How are people in rural Ireland, including inland areas, going to cope?