Clare County Council says figures contained in a new report on road maintanance aren't reflective of the work being carried out on the ground.
The Government review which compiled data from the new GeoAPP system showed that only 1 out of 26 defects on the county's roads logged in 2014 have been fixed.
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It also shows that Transport Infrastructure Ireland, which allocates funding, is lacking essential information on whether money is being effectively spent by local authorities across the country.
But Senior Engineer with Clare County Council Tom Tiernan says the system is in its infancy and the figures are reflective of the extent that the system is being used rather than the output of scheduled works on the routes.
