Fianna Fáil's Adam Wyse says roadworks are causing serious disruption to people's lives.
He wants the council to be stricter about when works can go ahead.
He says during the recent roadworks on the Dunmore Road it took him about an hour and fiteen minutes to go four and a half kilometres.
He asked if the council had any say as to when roadworks can happen. Councillor Wyse said he knew there was a cost involved in doing work post 9am but he wondered if
it could be policy of the council that roadworks during school times would not happen prior to that time.
Senior roads engineer Gabriel Hynes says the council does provide a license for roadworks, however he is ruling out introducing restrictions.
He said "We are in control of the roadworks and certainly we can reduce times, but the difficulty is they like starting at 7am in the morning, if you restrict the time during peak
hours, suddenly a job that should take a fortnight, now takes four weeks with additional costs so at times you are as well to let them start as early as possible
in the morning and continue on until 7pm in the evening and get it over with in the shortest time frame as possible".
