John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 203: To ask the Minister for Transport the regulations which are in place to ensure proper control of traffic signs while road works are being carried out by contractors; the persons who monitor roadwork traffic signs; if he will make the traffic signs manual available to public libraries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9623/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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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. A copy of the manual is available in the Oireachtas Library, and copies have been made available to city councils and county councils, who also have responsibility for public libraries.

Chapter 8 of the manual sets out advice on the signs to be deployed at road works. Responsibility for the provision, positioning, maintenance and monitoring of such traffic signs at road works locations on non-national roads is a matter for the individual road authority and in the case of national roads, the National Roads Authority.

My Department is currently 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. It is intended that the use of the manual by road authorities will ensure a high quality of signposting in the State through uniformity of practice and the creation of a consistent approach to signing, including at road works.