Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 499: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of funding which has been allocated to road safety initiatives for 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19454/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Exchequer funding in respect of 2005 for road safety agencies under the aegis of the Department of Transport amounts to a total of €6.398 million, €3.965 million to the National Safety Council, NSC, and €2.433 million to the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. In addition the Exchequer provision to the National Roads Authority, NRA, for national road improvement and maintenance works in 2005 is €1.415 billion.

An upgraded roads network is, of course, a safer roads network. From this allocation the NRA will provide €40.4 million for specific road safety measures, which includes an allocation of €15 million for retrofitting of median safety barriers. Funding for road improvements and remedial measures on non-national roads is a matter for the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. The funding made available for Garda operations, which supports the enforcement of road traffic law is a matter for the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.