Crumbling road network - Ring-fence tax take for repairs

WITH the ever-spreading potholes on Ireland’s roads now resembling deep craters of the moon in areas hit by the recent floods, motorists are once again wondering where their hard-earned taxes are going. 

As far as frustrated drivers go, the answer to that perennial question is “everywhere” and “anywhere” but certainly not into the road network which is rapidly crumbling from one end of the country to the other.

No doubt, with an election looming next month, tarmac by the tonne will be used to mend the patchwork quilt.