Written answers
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Department of Transport
Road Network
9:00 pm
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of money which was available in 2008 to local authorities on a county basis in tabular form for local and regional roads. [12974/09]
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 257: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of money which will be available to local authorities on a county basis in tabular form for local and regional roads. [12975/09]
Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 256 and 257 together.
The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads, in its area, is a statutory function of each individual local authority to be funded from its own resources supplemented by State road grants paid by my Department. State road grants paid in 2008 are set out in the following table. The allocations which will be authorised for 2009 will not be known until after 7th April when the budget is announced.
| Local Authority | 2008 Grant Payments | 2009 Grant Allocations |
| € | € | |
| County Councils | ||
| Carlow | 7,689,649 | 8,108,699 |
| Cavan | 18,459,927 | 18,683,025 |
| Clare | 22,318,081 | 22,576,498 |
| Cork | 62,827,165 | 63,659,343 |
| Donegal | 43,656,564 | 39,464,397 |
| Dun Laoghaire–Rathdown | 9,187,663 | 8,711,699 |
| Fingal | 9,740,986 | 8,170,866 |
| Galway | 30,251,618 | 33,844,804 |
| Kerry | 25,281,662 | 25,540,139 |
| Kildare | 26,858,894 | 25,470,264 |
| Kilkenny | 15,001,413 | 16,021,813 |
| Laois | 10,844,115 | 12,453,928 |
| Leitrim | 12,532,288 | 12,622,699 |
| Limerick | 18,408,476 | 18,330,598 |
| Longford | 8,953,647 | 9,085,799 |
| Louth | 10,678,281 | 14,426,636 |
| Mayo | 31,150,621 | 31,212,746 |
| Meath | 29,232,813 | 22,491,473 |
| Monaghan | 17,030,071 | 18,000,199 |
| North Tipperary | 13,648,233 | 15,517,598 |
| Offaly | 11,156,910 | 11,925,699 |
| Roscommon | 18,361,100 | 17,847,265 |
| Sligo | 15,853,007 | 17,149,751 |
| South Dublin | 9,162,308 | 13,826,899 |
| South Tipperary | 16,397,058 | 16,529,738 |
| Waterford | 15,844,110 | 17,888,699 |
| Westmeath | 15,701,147 | 18,329,365 |
| Wexford | 19,006,757 | 18,993,046 |
| Wicklow | 24,796,229 | 25,076,820 |
| City Councils | ||
| Cork City | 7,003,628 | 6,979,000 |
| Dublin City | 14,178,426 | 18,325,656 |
| Galway City | 2,317,829 | 3,805,000 |
| Limerick City | 3,498,718 | 4,210,000 |
| Waterford City | 6,950,075 | 5,170,000 |
| * Grants in respect of county council areas include grants to borough and town councils in their areas. |
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 258: To ask the Minister for Transport if there has been a cutback in the amount of funding which has been promised for roads for 2009. [12976/09]
Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Apart from a minor adjustment (€1.1 million) there has been no reduction in the allocation announced on 28 January 2009 by the National Roads Authority for its national roads investment programme or in the allocations for regional and local roads notified to local authorities on 2 February 2009. All public expenditure is, however, subject to review in the context of the forthcoming Supplementary Budget.
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