An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-25
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Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

The key argument represented to my engineers and the Department is that investing in ongoing maintenance saves in the long run. If we let a road go and it goes below a certain standard, getting it back to standard is very expensive and difficult. There is a real case for what is called steady state investment, or investing in the steady state characteristic of our roads. Cork is the largest county by area and, I am sure, has the greatest length of road by miles, and it will be considered, like every county, in making our roads safe. That is what the investment provides for.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-25