Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 365: To ask the Minister for Transport the decrease in the 2009 non-primary roads allocation to Cork County Council; if he will tabulate the way this increase compares with all other local authorities allocations; if he will also provide a per kilometre figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15721/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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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.

Following the Supplementary Budget of 7 April 2009, revised allocations were notified to local authorities on 14 April 2009, in respect of regional and local roads. The revised allocations are set out in Table 1.

Regional and local road grants are allocated under a number of grant categories. The only grant categories which are calculated by reference to length of road are the discretionary improvement, discretionary maintenance and restoration maintenance categories.

Details of the 2009 grant allocations per kilometre to each county council under these specified grant categories are set out in Table 2.

Table 1

Table 2