Written answers

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Improvement Schemes

Photo of Tom FlemingTom Fleming (Kerry South, Independent)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide special grant to widen and provide ancillary services, footpath and lighting to the road from Ballyspillane Industrial Estate, Killarney, extending to SPA GAA complex (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15689/13]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo 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.

The Department has allocated a total of €349.462 million to local authorities for works on regional and local roads in 2013. Of this figure a total of €13,809,639 has been allocated to Kerry County Council. This figure is in addition to the funds that the Council will allocate from their own resources to such works.

My Department recently wrote to local authorities offering additional flexibility this year by allowing Councils to transfer resources into their discretionary grant from their Restoration Improvement Grant to ensure funding is targeted at the areas which are most in need. When doing so councils have been asked to focus on maintenance and rehabilitation works.

The Department's moneys for roads have now been fully allocated.

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