Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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81. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will arrange for the hardcore re-surfacing of the access road, walkers path from the old monastic carpark at Glendalough up to the old mines at the Wicklow Gap (details supplied). [43709/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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My Department has no function in relation to this road, which is a private access route shared by Coillte; the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; and the Catholic Youth Care group who have an interest in Youth Hostels in the area. I understand that in 2007 works were carried out on the road and were jointly funded by the three bodies with a shared interest in the route. I also understand that Coillte's use of the road has been limited to car traffic only on a sporadic basis and that the greatest use of this road is by the traffic linked to the Youth Hostels.