AQW 22223/17-22


Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim


Tabled Date: 10/09/2021
Answered On Date: 20/09/2021
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure how many potholes in the South Antrim constituency (i) have been reported for repair and (ii) have been repaired, in each of the last five years.


Answer:
My Department does not maintain records by constituency area, however, the following table provides details of the number of carriageway, hard shoulder and layby surface defects (which includes potholes, cracking, depressions etc.) reported and repaired, in each of the last 5 years for the Antrim and Newtownabbey area:
YEAR
DEFECTS REPORTED
DEFECTS REPAIRED
2016/17
17014
8147
2017/18
15675
6580
2018/19
18479
10528
2019/20
16860
6827
2020/21
19198
8350
It should be noted that under the current ‘Limit Service’ arrangements, which are in place due to the significant budgetary shortfall, a large number of the recorded or reported defects do not meet the current intervention threshold for repair.