Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 448: To ask the Minister for Transport if schools outside designated CLÁR areas are automatically entitled to flashing amber warning lights outside primary schools; and if not, the reason therefor. [27601/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The provision of road traffic signs, including the flashing amber warning lights in the vicinity of schools, is a matter to be determined by each road authority under section 95 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961. An automatic entitlement to have any particular type of traffic sign provided at any location does not arise.

The allocation of funding under the CLÁR programme is administered by the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs in relation to physical, community and social infrastructure measures in the relevant designated areas.

I am aware that funding under the CLAR programme has been allocated in the past year to local authorities towards the provision of traffic warning signs at specified schools in designated areas but this provision does not give rise to an entitlement for a funding programme for the corresponding measures in other areas.