Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 211: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the amount spent on the upgrade of the major inter-urban routes since 1999 to date; the amount it is estimated that it will cost to complete the programme of upgrading the major inter-urban routes; and when same is expected to be completed. [12555/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The planning, design and implementation of national road improvement projects is a matter, under the Roads Act 1993, for the National Roads Authority, NRA, and the local authorities concerned.

From 1999 to date approximately €6.7 billion has been spent on the national roads programme. Transport 21 provides more than €18 billion of further funding for the programme over the period 2006 to 2015. This will fund the expected completion of the routes referred to by the Deputy by the end of 2010.

I am informed by the NRA that the exact costs of completing the routes can only be established once all the road schemes making up these routes have been tendered for and contracts awarded.