Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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793. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given in the Forestry Bill 2013 regarding the impact that trucks of more than forty tonnes are having on regional and local roads in a particular county (details supplied) in considering that during the previous Forestry Act 1946 which this legislation is repealing, that the weight of trucks on roads over half a century ago was significantly less; if his attention has been drawn to the financial impact this is having on local authorities in view of their limit budgets for road repairs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26936/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The impact of heavy vehicles on the road network is a matter for regulation by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport under the Roads Act. It is not appropriate to the Forestry Bill, 2013, which deals explicitly with issues relating to forestry.