Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The response that I am giving on behalf of the Department of Transport outlines that the Department opened up for detailed applications from local authorities with severe weather road damage following the storm, and no significant damage from Storm Chandra was identified and notified to the Department by Cavan County Council. That is the response and the detail that I have. Funding of €40 million was announced to support projects across the country where remediation proved beyond the ability of some local authorities to fund. In relation to the applications received, I can only imagine that the Department would have assessed them in detail as to the scale and impact, and whether the capacity to fund the repair of that damage was beyond the councils within the other resources they had available to them.

I will ask the Department if there is further information on the nature of any notification from Cavan County Council, and whether it was the case that it did not meet the threshold of being significant in the context of considering it against other applications that were received, and also in the context of there being a certain envelope to address that issue. I am not sure if the Senator has any information on what applications may have been made by Cavan County Council or otherwise.