Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding road improvements (details supplied) in County Kildare; the proposals to complete the improvements; the value of the site from an archaeological point of view; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16851/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The improvement of non-national roads in County Kildare is a matter for Kildare County Council to be funded from its own resources supplemented by grants provided by my Department.

To the end of 2004, my Department provided funding of €1,131,755 to Kildare County Council for road improvements at Ardreigh, Athy, and an allocation of €50,000 has been made in 2005 for the project. I understand that expenditure, to date, by Kildare County Council on this project has been mainly on a significant level of archaeological investigations. These have not been completed, to date.