Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 160: To ask the Minister for Transport the extent to which he expects to meet budgetary requirements arising from road development proposals contained in the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46336/09]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Under the National Development Plan and Transport 21, the priority up to the end of 2010 is on the completion of the five major interurban routes (MIUs) linking Dublin to Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford.

The projects are on target for completion by the end of 2010. The M1 to the border is already complete and I expect the final section of the M6 to Galway to open before the end of this year.

The priority for the roads investment programme after the completion of the major interurban network will be on the Atlantic Road Corridor, where construction is already underway, as well as the improvement of other key national primary routes and targeted improvement of certain national secondary routes. Decisions to proceed with individual projects will be taken by the National Roads Authority from time to time in the light of the Renewed Programme for Government and available Exchequer resources.