I ask the Minister about local improvement schemes. I acknowledge the effort she has made to provide funding over recent years to try to clear the lists nationwide but almost one in five of all roads that are awaiting improvements nationwide are in County Kerry and we need substantially more funding to try to clear the list. As it currently stands, there are more than 600 roads for which people are waiting. These are people who paid their taxes and who are trying to travel these roads in their cars, on bicycles and with prams day in, day out and the roads are in appalling condition. They are non-council roads, are not strictly private roads and they need to be improved. In this year's allocations, I ask the Minister to particularly look at counties where there is a huge waiting list and see whether something better could be done for those counties to try to eat into the list in 2024.

I thank the Deputy. I have provided €100 million for local improvement schemes since 2017. I know we are making inroads into the long list and some counties have opened up their schemes for new applications. I do not know if that is the case in County Kerry. Some counties kept them closed until they got the list reduced considerably. I will be announcing the LIS schemes at the end of January and have no doubt, like every other year, that Kerry will get more than its fair share.