Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of a pilot programme to provide additional funding to local authorities to improve road markings on regional roads; the allocation made to each local authority under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4833/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Specific grants are not provided to local authorities for road markings on regional roads. However, my Department introduced a five-year regional road signposting programme in 2003 with the aim of providing directional signposts on all significant junctions on all regional roads in county council areas.

In 2006, a sum of €6.64 million has been allocated to county councils under the regional road signposting programme. Details of allocations to individual county councils under the programme in 2006 are set out in the following table.

Local authorities may also use discretionary improvement and block grants provided by my Department towards the cost of providing road markings as well as or instead of signposting on non-national roads. In 2006, the discretionary improvement grant allocation to county councils is €24,270,000 and the block grant allocation to city, borough and town councils is €15,510,000.