Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Question 212: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances in which a tree, which is deemed to pose a risk to road users, may be pruned or removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23434/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and funding in relation to the national roads programme. The construction, improvement and maintenance of individual national roads is a matter for the National Roads Authority under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2007 in conjunction with the local authorities concerned.

Similarly, the improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads, in its area, is a statutory function of each road authority in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Roads Act, 1993.

Section 70 of the Roads Act 1993, which is available on the Attorney General's website or in the Oireachtas Library, deals specifically with the issue of structures or vegetation obstructing the safe use of a public road.