Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the appropriate level of funding will be made available for traffic calming measures at Johnstownbridge and Kilshanroe, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49634/13]

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 Council. Local authorities have been provided with over €400 million for regional and local roads this year.  From this allocation Kildare County Council has been allocated over €21.6 million. 

 An application for funding for traffic calming works and surfacing works at Johnstownbridge and Kilshanroe was received in my Department from Kildare County Council at the end of October 2013.  It will be considered along with all other local authority applications for funding for 2014. It is also open to the Council to fund these works from its Discretionary Grant or from its own resources. I will announce the 2014 regional and local road grant allocations early next year.