Meeting Hears East Clare Residents Having Difficulty Accessing Homes Due To Damage From Bypass Construction

This is something that is far enough to direct our, I suppose, as regards the authorities.

So the damage done to the regional roads and the roads around surrounding the project

is what I'm really talking about.

In the current roads budget, you're aware, 5 million euros was allocated towards the brick to complete the bridge and bypass cross and project.

But I learned today that no money was allocated to the remedial work and restoration work.

I'm not looking for an upgrade here, I'm not looking for any.

I'm looking to have the roads surrounding the project that were badly damaged by construction traffic and extra traffic and detours and so forth.

I'm asking to have those roads restored to what the previous, at least to what the previous were.

I have constituents and people who are in and around the project area who are finding it difficult to access their houses and their homes because the road has sunk in front of them and their houses and because of the damage done to the roads.

So these people need to have the roads restored to what the originally were.

You've rode suffering in some areas to sort of almost pay for the improvements in others?

Absolutely, and you know, I don't want to keep happening about this because the bridge, the new bridge and bypass is probably one of the greatest infrastructural projects that has taken place in the Killaloo MD.

But there is a fallout and there is money coming in to the area and I can't, for the life of me, see why the restoration program of the world.

I mean, this follows out to a Brian's bridge, for example, the bridge, the road from a Brian's bridge bridge, John Crosswright, over into bridge town and so forth.

So the roads that were badly damaged and badly affected in and around the Killaloo bridge town or Brian's bridge area as a result of the construction traffic and detours, as I said already, that money hasn't been allocated for those.

And I'm calling on our Araratus members here now to get into the department and source that funding that the Killaloo MD, it's been left back to the Killaloo MD, the project management office have washed their hands of us.

It's not their responsibility this year. So it falls back to the Killaloo municipal district to fund and to restore the roads.

And I'm asking our Araratus members to get that funding for the Killaloo municipal district.