Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 472: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when funding for the local improvement schemes will be announced; his views on whether it is difficult for county councils to properly plan and carry out the work on these important schemes in an organised way when in mid-April they still do not know their allocation; if he has considered a more realistic way of allocating the funding based on demand and need at each county level rather than based on historic allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11758/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Funding for the local improvement scheme, LIS, is considered in the context of the overall grant allocations for non-national roads and the number of LIS applications on hand in each county at the end of the previous year. A sum of €12.5 million has been provided for the local improvements scheme in 2005 and details of the 2005 individual allocations to county councils will be announced shortly. Local authorities normally carry out works under the local improvements scheme towards the end of the year when other road works have been completed.