Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 479: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing a revised local improvement scheme to provide greater flexibility to local authorities to clear very long backlogs of roads awaiting resurfacing under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19783/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Section 81 of the Local Government Act 200 provides the statutory basis for the Local Improvements Scheme (LIS) and the Local Improvements Scheme Memorandum, which issued in February 2002, sets out the terms and conditions for the payment of LIS grants. Under the scheme, grants are provided to county councils for the construction and improvement of non-public roads which provide access to parcels of land of which at least two are owned or occupied by different persons engaged in separate agricultural activities, or provide access for harvesting purposes for two or more persons, or which will in the opinion of the county council be used by the public. Provision of assistance for non public roads has to take account of current serious financial constraints. There are no proposals at present to amend the scheme in the manner suggested by the Deputy.