Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 58: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money raised from toll roads around the State fines incurred between 2009 and to date in 2012. [8607/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The statutory power to levy tolls on national roads, to make toll bye-laws and to enter into toll agreements with private investors in respect of national roads is vested in the National Roads Authority (NRA) under Part V of the Roads Act 1993 (as amended by the Planning and Development Act 2000 and the Roads Act 2007).

Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the works in regard to the east-west interconnector have disrupted traffic between Ballyboughal and Oldtown, County Dublin, for more than 18 months; and when residents can expect that the roads will be repaired and the disruption cease. [8952/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is a statutory function of each road authority within its area, in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Roads Act, 1993. Works on such roads are a matter for the relevant local authority to be funded from its own resources and may be supplemented by State road grants.

The re-instatement of roads excavated by contractors or utility companies and the management of traffic on such roads are a matter for the local authority and the individual contractor to resolve.