I refer to the lack of roads funding provided to Wexford County Council in the aftermath of Storm Chandra. We are now 120 days on from the storm, which occurred on 27 January. Unfortunately, despite a request for an emergency budget of €22 million, Wexford County Council has not received any funding to date. I am seeking answers in this regard. The council has identified 157 roads in the county as damaged to the point of being in an immediate and dangerous state of disrepair as a result of the storm. It is the largest number of roads so affected in any county. The council does not have the resources out of its ordinary roads budget to address this issue.

We have been waiting 120 days and we are still waiting. The real impact of this is being felt by the Wexford economy, with farmers unable to access some fields, milk lorries unable to enter parlours, hauliers unable to bring goods to businesses and families where a member's carer cannot access the home because they are unable to get up the road. I spoke the other day to a man who told me that the carer who comes to his grandmother has to get out of the car and walk 600 m up the road to get into the house and 600 m back down the road after leaving the house at the end of the shift. That man is terrified about what could happen if an ambulance needs to be called and cannot get up the road. This is the type of experience being lived through by people in Wexford. I ask that the Minister for Transport come to the Chamber and explain when the emergency money and the catch-up money committed to the programme for Government will be released and when there will be certainty for Wexford County Council. The summer will be over soon, the winter will come quickly and then we will back into another storm cycle.