Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of immediate and emergency funding his Department will be providing for repair and renewal of the road network in County Wexford following the Christmas Day flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1036/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of the relevant local authority in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from Councils' own resources supplemented by State road grants, where applicable. 

My Department has committed to provide funding in the 2022 Regional and Local Road grant allocations to assist Wexford County Council with road repair works arising from the flooding event that occurred in Wexford on Christmas Day. My Department is currently liaising with the Council in relation to establishing an estimate of the cost of the repair works.