Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 151: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of capital projects within his Department which in 2004 and in 2005 had an estimated cost of between €30 million and €50 million, and which would have been subject to cost-benefit analysis if the newly announced criteria for such evaluations had then been in force; and the total cost of such projects in each year. [35268/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Under the revised capital appraisal guidelines published in February 2005, a cost-benefit analysis is to be carried out by the sponsor of each public capital project with a value of over €50 million.

Some 19 projects sponsored by local authorities within the annual public capital programmes for 2004 and 2005 regarding housing regeneration, water services and non-national roads exceed this threshold. In so far as their timing may bring them within the new guidelines, the carrying out of the required cost-benefit analysis will be for the local authority concerned. My Department's role would be that of sanctioning authority.