Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport
9:00 am
Mr. Dominic Mullaney:
That is right. In terms of how we split it, we have three main programmes which go towards roads - restoration maintenance, which is the surface dressing programme; restoration improvement, which is rehabilitation of payments; and a discretionary grant programme. Normally, they account for maybe over 85% of our budget for regional and local roads and they are all mileage based. The only exception is that there is a factor of 1.3 applied for Kildare and Meath because of traffic volumes, and the cities have a factor of 2 applied to them. Apart from that, it is on a per kilometer basis.