Call for financial support for hedge-cutting

A local authority can serve notice requiring a landowner to take action to address a hazard.

Landowners are required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that trees, hedges and other vegetation growing on their land are not, or could not become, a danger to people using a public road or interfere with its safe use or maintenance. File photo

The possibility of financial assistance being provided to landowners who are requested to undertake substantial works to cut back roadside trees and hedges was raised in the Dáil.

Cork North-West TD Michael Moynihan (FF), who tabled the question to Transport Minister Eamon Ryan, said these works can sometimes necessitate closing a public road.