Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide additional funding in 2006 to Roscommon County Council to upgrade cul-de-sac roads under the local improvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7520/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The total 2006 allocation for the local improvements scheme is €25 million, which is double the initial 2005 allocation for this scheme. Details of allocations to individual county councils under the scheme will be announced shortly.

The administration of the scheme in its own functional area is a matter for the relevant county council. Each council has responsibility for decisions regarding eligibility and subsequent selection and prioritisation of schemes, subject to the terms of my Department's local improvements scheme memorandum, which issued in February 2002, and circulars which have issued from my Department regarding the scheme.