asked the Minister for Lands when it is intended to repair the road from Ardcarne to Boyle, County Roscommon via Rockingham as a number of people who have holdings in this area find the road impassable.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Roscommon Road Repairs.
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The road across the former Rockingham estate from Boyle to Ardcarne, which is not a public road, has deteriorated in some places due to heavy traffic and to work on the laying of water pipes which is at present in progress. The necessity for the extraction of big quantities of heavy timber over this road from time to time precludes the maintenance of a uniformly high standard of road finish but arrangements are being made to bring the damaged portions of the road back to reasonable repair.
Last June the Minister answered a question about this road and he said that arrangements had been made to get the surface of the road used by the public into a reasonable state of repair. It is not in a reasonable state of repair; there are 20 tractors belonging to the Forestry Division on it at the moment. For heaven's sake, between his Department and the local authority, would the Minister do something so that people can pass along it; they cannot even get out to Mass on Sunday.
The Deputy is under a misapprehension. This is a private road and the Forestry Division have had heavy extractions of timber there. They have done some work on it and they do propose to put it in a reasonable state of repair but they have got to use it pretty heavily at this time.
Can the Minister say when it will be put into a reasonable state of repair?
Shortly.
Inside the next month, we hope.