AQW 18122/22-27

Mr David Honeyford
Alliance Party
Lagan Valley

Tabled Date: 13/11/2024
Answered On Date: 29/11/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the average response time from each Roads Division to reports received from elected representatives in the last three years.

Answer:

My Department does not maintain statistics in the format requested.

Following reports from the public or public representative of potholes it may be necessary for my officials to carry out a site investigation to enable a decision on whether the pothole meets our intervention criteria and the creation of an instructed surface defect record.

My Department receives a high volume of surface defect related enquiries, and regrettably it is not possible to investigate all enquiries immediately. It is likely that some faults will not be investigated until the next routine inspection of the area.

If, after investigation, it is found that the reported pothole requires action, our current standards specify a range of response times for the repair of defects, depending on factors such as their severity and the volume of traffic on the road. They range from one calendar day for the most serious defects, to periods of five working days and four weeks for less serious defects.