Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 706: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding Wexford County Council received for rural roads for each year from 2000 to date in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34579/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The improvement and maintenance of non-national roads in County Wexford is a matter for Wexford County Council to be financed from its own resources supplemented by State road grants provided by my Department.

Details of the total non-national road grant payments from my Department to Wexford County Council from 2000 to 2005 and the initial 2006 allocation are set out in the following table:

Responsibility for national roads is a matter for the relevant local authority and the National Roads Authority which operates under the aegis of my colleague the Minister for Transport.