Nearly €4 million has been spent repairing Kerry County Council machinery over the past seven years.
Figures released at yesterday’s monthly meeting, following a motion from Fianna Fáil councillor Niall Kelleher, show that the council’s machinery yard’s expenses during 2020 were over €3.8 million.
Over half a million of this went towards machinery repairs and maintenance, a similar figure to the preceding six years.
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Last month, Radio Kerry showed that the cost of maintaining four 23-year-old machines was in excess of €250,000 over a five-year period.
Those machines, JCB diggers, had further maintenance costs of over €35,000 in 2020, with one item costing nearly €100,000 in repairs over the past number of years.
