Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 149: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount spent to date on non-national road measures under the national development plan; the amount estimated to be spent by the end of the programme; the breakdown of each for the Border midland western and south and east regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24626/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The National Development Plan 2007-2013 envisages that, over the period of the Plan, some €4.3 billion will be invested by the Exchequer and the Local Government Fund in the non-national road network. This investment will be primarily aimed at restoring and maintaining the extensive rural road network and investment in strategic non-national roads. A breakdown of investment between the regions over the period of the Plan has not been identified. Total funding being provided for non-national roads under the Plan in 2007 is €607.5 million. The provisional percentage breakdown between the regions of this allocation is 58% for the Southern & Eastern Region and 42% for the Border, Midland and Western Region.

Total road grants paid to local authorities to end September 2007 for non-national roads under the Plan is €348,876,307 i.e. €208,445,554 in the Southern & Eastern Region and €140,430,753 in the Border Midland and Western Region.