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Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Photo of Shane McEnteeShane McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Question 195: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of funding he has received from the EU since 1999 in order to improve and upgrade the national roads network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44745/09]

Photo of Noel DempseyNoel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has lead responsibility for the management of EU assisted programmes involving the development of major transport infrastructures, including the national roads network. In the period referred to by the Deputy there have been two such programmes: the Transport Operational Programme 1994-1999 and the Economic and Social Infrastructure Operational Programme 2000-2006. The source of EU assistance in both cases is the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). For the period from the start of 1999 to date, the ERDF assistance approved by the European Commission in respect of the national road elements of the two programmes concerned amounted to €781 million, of which €196 million was provided under the Transport Operational Programme and €585 million was provided under the Economic and Social Infrastructure Operational Programme. In addition, my Department has lead responsibility for the management in Ireland of EU Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) funding. TEN-T funding allocated for national road projects since the start of 1999 amounts to €43 million. EU funding for national road development has also been provided for programmes in respect of which other bodies in Ireland have the lead management role under EU Regulations. These include the Cohesion Fund, the Interreg Programme, the Peace Programme and the Regional Operational Programmes.

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