Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regrading special improvement road grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57371/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that 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.  Works on such roads are a matter for the relevant local authority to be funded from its own resources supplemented by State road grants.   

Local authorities were recently invited to submit a four year Multi-Annual Restoration Programme 2013 - 2016.   The initial selection and prioritisation of projects to be funded under this grant category is a matter for the Council.   It is open to the Council to prioritise this project and to include it in its four year programme.