Deputy Brendan Smith has raised the need for additional funding for local roads across Cavan and Monaghan with Tánaiste Micheál Martin and the Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan.
He says that while there has been a welcome and much-needed increase in Government funding for the non-national road network over the last few years, inflation has unfortunately eaten into the available resources.
Deputy Smith highlighted during a series of parliamentary questions the "urgent requirement" for additional investment due to the very substantial increase in costs that have arisen over the past two years in road maintenance products and construction works.
He said he expects that in the mid-year review of the 2023 capital programme, priority will be given to a further allocation of grant aid to regional, county and local roads.
"The councils in my constituency, Cavan and Monaghan, have the capacity to put such funding to good use in the best interests of rural communities," Deputy Smith added.
