Cecilia Keaveney (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 99: To ask the Minister for Transport if a review of signage policy will be carried out nationally to allow locations in, for example, Donegal to be signposted on exit roads from Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4491/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The provision of destination signposting is a matter for the relevant local authority in the first instance. The traffic signs manual 1996 sets out directions given to road authorities by the Minister for Transport pursuant to section 95(16) of the Road Traffic Act 1961 regarding the provision and use of warning and information traffic signs, including directional information signs. A copy of the manual is available in the Oireachtas Library. The manual contains advice for road authorities in relation to the provision of directional signs on national routes. The policy on content of all advance directional signs on national primary routes is to display the terminal destination of the national route plus terminal of spur route.

The recognised terminal destinations listed in the traffic signs manual for national primary road N2 are Derry and Dublin and, accordingly, destination signage on routes leaving Dublin indicate Derry. My Department is pursuing a comprehensive review of the present traffic signs manual in association with the National Roads Authority and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Consultants have been engaged to prepare a new manual. The issue of the format and content of destination signs will be considered in the context of this review. The example referred to by the Deputy in relation to Donegal raises a wider question as to the signing of destinations and this will be the subject of particular examination in that review.