Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation his Department made to provide for an inner relief road for Tuam, County Galway; when the inner relief road will be complete; if he has received representations on this matter, from individual councillors on Galway County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8477/15]

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.  

No Exchequer funding commitment has been made in relation to an inner relief road for Tuam.  Given the cutbacks in the funding available for roads, the Specific and Strategic Grants Schemes for road improvement projects have had to be curtailed in recent years in order to protect funding for road maintenance and repair.

Details of the 2015 regional and local road grant allocations to county councils including Galway County Council are outlined in the regional and local road grant payment booklets which are available in the Dáil Library.