Funds for road repairs 'won't be sufficient'
Wednesday March 10 2010
THE URGE to talk at length about the bad state of repair of frost damaged roads was curbed at Monday's council meeting. Chairman Jim Moore told councillors that they should reserve their comments for a special council meeting on the subject on April 6.
This did not prevent Cllr. Michael Kinsella making a plea for repair crews to abandon their shovels in favour of more modern equipment.
He was sure that that his brother, a landscape gardener would not be able to make any money if he tackled work with picks and shovels. Such old fashioned tools had long since been abandoned in favour of mini-diggers.
Cllr. Declan MacPartlin urged to officials to consider any offers of help from residents and business owners affected by broken roads. Such volunteers should not be turned away because of health & safety red tape, he suggested.
Director of services Adrian Doyle advised Enniscorthy representative Keith Doyle that the money available for road repairs is traditionally divided equally between the four districts in the county. The director added a warning: 'The money won't reach to all the roads that legitimately should be done. The money won't be sufficient. You can't get a quart out of a pint and that is what we are going to be at.
