Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 731: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the progress on rolling out a high standard sign posting system for the network of non-national roads; and the number of years it will take before a satisfactory integrated system is in place. [27882/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Local authorities are responsible for the provision of road traffic signs on non-national roads. However, in line with a commitment in the Programme for Government to put in place a new 5 year plan to ensure that non-national roads are properly signposted, my Department introduced a new Regional Roads Signposting Programme for non-national roads in 2003. It is proposed that directional signposts on all significant junctions on all regional roads in county council areas will be upgraded under the programme. To the end of 2005, grants totalling €2,767,800 were paid to local authorities under the Programme and in 2006 a sum of €6.64 million has been allocated under the Programme. Progress under the scheme is a matter for the relevant local authority. Local authorities may also use discretionary improvement and block grants provided by my Department towards the cost of providing signposting on non-national roads. In 2006, the discretionary improvement grant allocation to county councils is €24.27 million and the block grant allocation to City, Borough and Town Councils is €15.51 million.