{"id":457892,"date":"2025-09-28T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457892\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:47:12","slug":"115-million-spent-on-northern-irelands-pot-holes-in-a-year-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457892\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3115 million spent on Northern Ireland\u2019s pot holes in a year \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department for Infrastructure has spent more than \u00a3115 million repairing roads<\/a> across Northern Ireland over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

This compares with \u00a399.7 million in the previous year. <\/p>\n

The Department for Infrastructure spent a total of \u00a3106.2 million in 2022\/23.<\/p>\n

The area with the highest spend on road maintenance since 2020 was the southern region of the north where \u00a333.3 million was spent.<\/p>\n

\"SDLP<\/a>\"Remembering<\/a><\/p>\n

The next highest amount was in the west, with \u00a329.7 million and then the north with \u00a328.4 million<\/p>\n

The roads with the least amount spent on them in recent years are in the east where \u00a323.9 million.<\/p>\n

These figures are on top of money paid to the department\u2019s own in-house contractors.<\/p>\n

The internal fees paid hovered between \u00a316 million and \u00a321 million each year.<\/p>\n

The figures come as the result of an Assembly Question by SDLP<\/a> Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it has been absolutely eye-watering,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what\u2019s been spent on it, and look at the state of the roads. So there\u2019s a lot more to be done and a lot more needing to be spent, you would think, to get our roads up to the standard that they should be<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a question about accountability. It is a huge amount of public money. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my intention to do further research in terms of costs of some of their works in other jurisdictions, you know\u2014be it across the UK or in the South.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor many years their roads would have been something of a laughing stock. But now if you look at it\u2014and I just live a couple of miles from the border\u2014the difference in quality is plain to see and plain to feel whenever you\u2019re driving.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be very hard to argue that it\u2019s money well spent, given the state of the roads still currently. It seems that they don\u2019t even repair the potholes, they just move them around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department for Infrastructure has been contacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department for Infrastructure has spent more than \u00a3115 million repairing roads across Northern Ireland over the past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,24659,925,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-457892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-road","10":"tag-sdlp","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115282002122743515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}