Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 556: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in issuing design specifications for the signage and civil works relating to the application of special speed limits; the date these specifications will be issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29023/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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In January 2005 I made regulations, the Road Traffic (Speed Limit-Traffic Signs) Regulations 2005, SI No. 10 of 2005, prescribing the regulatory traffic signs displaying metric units of measurement, km/h, that the road authorities must provide on public roads to indicate the speed limit in force. The range of traffic signs can be deployed to indicate that a default speed limit, a special speed limit or a road works speed limit is in force.

While proposals for new formats of traffic signs are examined from time to time in my Department, the traffic sign regulations that I made in January of this year and the range of sign options already available under those regulations are adequate to support the implementation of any special speed limit options. The actual provision and installation of traffic signs on public roads is a matter for each road authority and advice is set out in the traffic signs manual in this regard. A copy of the manual is available in the Oireachtas Library.