Written answers
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
Department of Transport
Departmental Expenditure
9:00 pm
Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 127: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will provide the data on the national development plan roads and transport spending in the Border, midlands and western region with a breakdown of the amounts originally proposed and those which have been spent. [29076/05]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
| National Roads | ||
| Year | Forecast Expenditure €m | Actual Outturn €m |
| 2000 | 190.80 | 188.10 |
| 2001 | 293.23 | 236.90 |
| 2002 | 374.34 | 182.31 |
| 2003 | 382.38 | 186.80 |
| 2004 | 389.66 | 354.75 |
| 2005 | 415.49 | 413.13* |
| Total | 2,045.90 | 1,547.38 |
| * Allocation. |
A sum of €10.16 million is committed for the four regional airports in the BMW region under the regional airports measure of the Border, midland and western, BMW, regional operational programme of the National Development Plan 2000-2006. The four airports in question are Donegal, Sligo, Knock and Galway. To date, the Department has paid out grants totalling €6.8 million under the BMW measure, as shown in the following table.
| Airports | Sligo | Knock | Galway* | Donegal | Totals |
| â'¬000 | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | â'¬000 | |
| 2001 | 182 | 303 | 288 | 0 | 773 |
| 2002 | 470 | 0 | 728 | 253 | 1,451 |
| 2003 | 239 | 2,031 | 945 | 718 | 3,933 |
| 2004 | 9 | 0 | * | 0 | 9 |
| 2005 | 56 | 45 | 539 | 0 | 640 |
| Totals | 956 | 2,379 | 2,500 | 971 | 6,806 |
| * In 2004 Galway Airport received €1.276m under the "Regional Airports Infrastructure Grant Scheme", which preceded the BMW Operational Programme. |
The following table shows actual investment versus forecast in the BMW region by year during the period of the NDP.
| Year | Forecast Expenditure | Actual Outturn |
| â'¬ million | â'¬ million | |
| 2000 | 97.123 | 59.615 |
| 2001 | 104.701 | 59.822 |
| 2002 | 100.365 | 38.305 |
| 2003 | 92.033 | 48.236 |
| 2004 | 28.780 | 28.780 |
| Total | 423.002 | 234.758 |
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