Niall Collins (Limerick West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if car tax collected in a local authority administrative area is spent on road upkeep in that particular area of if it is pooled centrally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30389/07]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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The full proceeds of motor tax across local authority areas accrue centrally to the Local Government Fund. This income is supplemented by an annual contribution from the Exchequer into the Fund. The Fund provides very significant funding to local authorities through general purpose grants and non-national road grants. Grants from the Fund take account of the needs of each local authority and the income available to each authority from other sources. The formal transfer, from my Department to the Department of Transport, of responsibility for the allocation of non-national road grants from the Fund to local authorities will be effected shortly.