asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state in respect of each county council and each county borough council the total grants allotted by his Department for the current year under the following headings: (a) repair and improvement of (1) main roads and (2) county roads, (b) tourist road grants, (c) special grants for bridge works, (d) schemes, the technical aspects of which will be administered by his Department, (e) improvement of roads in Fíor-Ghaeltacht areas, (f) improvement of roads as substitutes for railways being cleared in such areas, and (g) any other grants; and if he will give the mileage of public roads in each local authority area.
Written Answers. - Road Grants.
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The information requested is being compiled. It is suggested that the Deputy repeat the question in about two weeks.
Surely the Chair and the House will expect an apology from the Minister for External Affairs for his conduct during Question Time?
The House and the country expect Fine Gael to stop knocking Shannon.
Stand up and apologise.
The House and the country expect that Fine Gael will stop their prophecies that rabbits will be running around Shannon. There are several thousand people around Shannon now—not rabbits—and they are at work, in spite of Fine Gael.
No wonder the people got a fright. When the Minister for Transport and Power put his thumb on the Tramore line, they tore it up in two days. He was speaking for the Government. That is what you were running away from.
Of course, he was.
You have your thumb on Shannon now.