Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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641. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of capital spending incurred directly within his Department as a results of measures undertaken as part of the 2011 jobs initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40936/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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As part of the Government's Jobs Initiative in 2011, my Department re-allocated €75 million of its Capital budget as follows:-

County Councils were provided with an additional €60 million in 2011 for regional and local roads. This funding was provided under the Restoration Improvement Programme. The investment was to help address the backlog of surface restoration and road reconstruction works on our regional and local road network, allowing projects previously planned for 2012 to be carried out that year.

Additional investment of €15m under the Smarter Travel heading was allocated towards local, labour intensive projects such as construction of cycle paths, pedestrian routes, traffic management systems and low cost safety measures.