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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 08, 2024

QUESTION NO.9

QUESTION: Councillor M. Lynch

Can the manager outline the reasons why so many potholes have appeared on roads in the constituency over the last number of months and what is being done to repair them.

REPLY:

Potholes are a defect in the road that can be caused by a number of factors such as;

• poor ground conditions,
• poor construction/re-instatement,
• material failure,
• poor workmanship,
• material reaching natural end of life

Depending on when Roads were surfaced there can be several locations that can require repair works at the same time. 

SDCC run an annual road patching programme that resolves localised road defects in the road network and it is under this programme that permanent pothole repairs are carried out.

As potholes are reported to us they are inspected and added to the list of locations for the patching programme. If the pothole is deemed a significant hazard then SDCC crews will carry out a temporary patch repair so as to resolve the hazard until the permanent work can be carried out.