Written answers
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Regional Road Network
Martin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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705. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make emergency funding available for a section of the L-3018, local primary route from Coolcorcoran Cross and Inchycullane. [17933/14]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from local authorities own resources supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the local authority.
My Department has allocated a total of €332 million for regional and local roads in 2014, €12.7m of which was allocated to Kerry County Council. Increasingly regional and local road grant funding to local authorities is being directed towards the maintenance and repair of regional and local roads and low cost safety works. This will remain the position in the coming years but as I outlined above the selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is a matter for the local authority.
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