Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of funding of €16.2 million, for the repair of damage caused by severe weather, to each local authority, resulting from the damage in the period from December 2013 to January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8258/15]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, 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 Government approved funding of €16.2 million for the repair of damage caused by severe weather.  Based on projected expenditure by Councils €14.1 million was included in my Department's budget in 2014 to cover expenditure related to severe weather and a provision of €2.1 was carried forward to 2015.

Actual expenditure by local authorities in 2014 to repair roads damaged as a result of the severe weather during the period 16 December 2013 – 6 January was as follows.