Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of funding he has allocated to the NRA for national roads for 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4771/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Exchequer provision for 2005 for national road improvement and maintenance, including a carryover of €42 million from 2004 is €1.415 billion, an increase of 15% on the 2004 outturn. This allows for good progress to be maintained on the national roads programme and will fund 20 major projects, nearly 200 km, in construction, including Kinnegad-Enfield on the N4, Dundalk western bypass, Sligo inner relief road, Fermoy bypass and so on. Many of these, including the south eastern motorway and Loughrea bypass, are scheduled for completion this year and early in 2006. It will also fund the commencement of a further 19 projects, over 200 km, including major projects on N6, phase 1 of Kinnegad-Athlone, N4, Edgeworthstown bypass, and N5, Charlestown bypass.