Debate contribution: Road Maintenance: Budget 2025-26

Debate contribution by Mrs Deborah Erskine on 2 June 2025.

MLA: Mrs Deborah Erskine
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 2 June 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Road Maintenance: Budget 2025-26
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4980992

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Roads are crumbling. There have been warm words about delivering a new road maintenance scheme using technology. The major roads prioritisation programme has been delayed. There has been an increase in the number of claims because of potholes. Road safety has been put in jeopardy as a result of the poor maintenance of our roads. I understand, however, that £4·2 million was underspent on roads in the previous financial year. Why was that?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2053/22-27.

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