Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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760. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of capital spending on construction projects carried out by his Department and by bodies operating under the responsibility of his Department between 2008 and to date in 2014; if he will provide the information on an annual basis in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25546/14]

Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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761. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of the €899 million designated to his Department for direct Exchequer capital funding according to the Government Estimates for 2014 is expected to go towards construction related projects; if he will list the projects; if he will provide an update on any of these projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25562/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 760 and 761 together. 

The bulk of spend in my Department is capital (around 60%), and most of this (over 90%) relates to transport investment in roads and public transport projects which naturally involve construction. These programmes are managed by Agencies under my remit - principally, the National Roads Authority (roads programme), the National Transport Authority  and CIE (for public transport investment).  I have forwarded the Deputy's question to those individual bodies for their direct response. Please advise my private office if you don't receive a reply within 10 working days.

Turning to sport and tourism capital spend, I have forwarded your request to the NSDCA (in respect of Sports Campus funding) and Fáilte Ireland (in respect of the tourism product development scheme) for direct reply.  Please advise my private office if you don't receive a reply within 10 working days.

There  is also a capital allocation for Smarter Travel (€10m annually). However, only elements of these programmes involve construction projects per se, mainly walking and cycling infrastructure.  It would be difficult to disaggregate the amounts that are used solely for the purposes of construction.

As the largest component of the Vote which relates to construction spend, I have set out the capital budget allocation from my Department to the NRA in respect of national road projects for the period 2008-2014:

Further details on individual projects are available from the NRA.

The capital budget allocation from my Department to local authorities in respect of regional and local roads for the period 2008-2014 is as set out below.

Details of the regional and local road grant allocations and payments to individual local authorities are outlined in the regional and local road grant payment booklets which are available in the Oireachtas Library. 

Regional Harbours 

On the maritime side, some capital funding is available to Harbour Authorities for remedial works. Spend from 2008-2014 are set out in Tables below.  

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014 Allocated Funding

Irish Coastguard 

The following table outlines the capital expenditure for the years 2008 to 2014 on construction projects carried out by the OPW on behalf of the Coast Guard.  These construction projects relate to expenditure on the building of Coast Guard stations.

Approximately €450,000 has been allocated to this programme for 2014, in respect of the commencement of the building of a new Coast Guard station at Greystones for the volunteer unit.  The commencement of the project is subject to completion of the contract award process by the OPW.

Sports 

Capital expenditure under the Sports Capital Programme area does not relate exclusively to construction activity.  In view of this and because of the large volumes of payments and grants involved, it is not possible to provide the information sought.