Road maintenance creates 13 000 jobs

However, the target was to create more than 68 000 jobs that would focus on repairing and maintaining secondary roads around the country.

Fin24 quotes the Department of Transport as saying that 510 988m² of road surfaces have been resealed and 321km of rural roads re-gravelled under the programme.

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• Fin24.com: Road repairs put 13 000 to work