Funding for local improvement scheme roads must be reinstated according to Sinn Féin Councillor Rose Conway-Walsh. One hundred and sixty eight LIS roads in the Belmullet Electoral area alone are waiting to be repaired.
Speaking at the Belmullet Local Area Meeting this week, Cllr Conway-Walsh said: “The Ard Mor Road, Binghamstown, is one such road which is almost impassable. As this is not a council road the reinstatement of the LIS Scheme is necessary to provide the funding so that those using the road will not be completely cut off from their homes and lands.”
The Sinn Féin councillor asked: “Can Minister Varadkar explain how these people and the other hundreds of families in the Belmullet Electoral Area and the wider Mayo area access their homes and lands?”
The councillor concluded: “It is disgraceful that this Government think they can get away with treating rural citizens in this way. It was bad enough the last government cut the LIS Scheme from over €80,000 per councillor to €18,000 per councillor in the last couple of years. I cannot do my job as a councillor with both hands tied behind my back.”
