Road Projects
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-05
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Martin Kenny (SF), Sligo-Leitrim

I am aware of how the system works or in many cases does not work. It certainly does not work efficiently and appropriately. Since the change of government, there has been a change in how the Department of Transport allocates funding. It is very much done on a phase-by-phase basis. Only when one phase of a project is completed can it try to draw down the funding for the next phase. That is causing serious delays, complications and difficulties. I would like to get a clear commitment from the Minister that there will be a review of that particular policy so that when a road is designed and there is a commitment to its being built, the Government actually provides the funding not just to begin the process but to complete the process and get it moving at pace so that we can have safer roads for everyone to travel on particularly the users of heavy goods vehicles who really need to see these roads developed the length and breadth of the country as quickly as possible.

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Sitting date: 2023-10-05