Donegal County Council is being urged to engage with local farming organisations with a view towards collaborating in the Winter Gritting Programme.
While the local authority grit a vast amount of national and primary routes in Donegal, a lot of regional and rural routes go untreated because of the extensive workload.
Cllr Ciaran Brogan says farming communities already tend to these routes where possible but believes that a formal collaborative approach would have far reaching benefits.
He also says that the move would work well in the Councils favour:
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