Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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717. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on funding to complete an unfinished footpath on the Cockhill Road, Stamullen, County Meath. [31826/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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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. My Department has allocated over €400 million in regional and local road grants to local authorities this year. From this allocation, Meath County Council is being provided with over €13.5 million. It is open to Meath County Council to fund these works either from its Discretionary Grant allocation or alternatively from its own resources should it so wish.