Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reward local authorities that are less dependent on central Government funding for road maintenance and repair. [15643/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from local authorities own resources supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the local authority.

In determining the annual non-national road grant allocations, the overall objective is to resource each local authority in as fair and equitable a manner as is possible within the Exchequer resources available and using a well established methodology which is applied equally to all local authority areas. I do not currently have any plans to reward, or otherwise, individual local authorities as circumstances differ considerably between them in terms of road lengths, population numbers and other relevant factors.