Massive revenue and capital investment in Mayo is outlined

A €2.03 billion revenue and capital spend has been delivered to communities during the five-year term of the outgoing Mayo County Council from 2019 to 2024.

The information has been published by the council in a document entitled 'Delivering for You'.

The biggest investment was made in road transport and safety where a sum of €772.768 million was invested in the past five years.

The figure is broken down as €465.702 million (capital) and €307.166 million (revenue).

The headline projects were the N5 Westport to Turlough Scheme (€250 million), N26 Cloongullane Scheme (€11.3 million), N59 Kilmeena Scheme (€6.4 million), N17/R320 Lisduff junction upgrade (€5.8 million), N60 Lagnamuck (€3.4 million) and the R312 realignment at Glenisland (€2.3 million).

A further €46 million was spent on maintaining 6,716 kilometres of roads.

The second biggest outlay was €484.225 million in respect of housing and building, a sum of €342.239m related to capital expenditure.

Up to 311 new homes were constructed across 23 separate sites at a cost of €78.116 million.

A further 129 new dwellings are currently under construction at nine sites at a cost of €41.171 million while a further 308 houses at 13 separate sites are at the design stage and will cost €87.605m.

A total of 4,820 planning applications were granted by the council since 2019.

Water services was the third highest spending area with a sum of €201.378m invested. This included the delivery of 58 capital projects with €3.4 million spent on the rural water capital programme.

The other significant investments made were development management €160.293 million, recreation and amenity €149.318 million, agriculture, education, health and wellbeing €26.676 million and miscellaneous services €101.422m.

Elected members allocated a total of €10.5 million to various organisations and projects over the past five years.