Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated, by local authority, in respect of the community involvement in roadworks schemes and the local improvement schemes for 2013 and 2014; and an estimate of this for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12255/15]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Community Involvement Scheme (CIS) was a pilot scheme which commenced in 2013 and was completed in 2014. It has been decided that there will be no separate allocation under this grant category in 2015. Instead the scheme will revert back to allowing local authorities to set aside 7.5% of their Restoration Improvement (RI) and Restoration Maintenance (RM) grants for CIS schemes if they so wish.

The Local Improvement Scheme remains in place for 2015 however, as in previous years, there is no separate allocation available towards this grant category. Instead local authorities may use up to 15% of their initial Discretionary Grant towards local improvement schemes should they wish to do so. The local contribution for these schemes remains at 20% of the total cost of the project. The same eligibility rules apply for these schemes.

Details of the regional and local road grant payments for 2013 and 2014 to each county council are available in the Dáil library. Details of the regional and local road grant allocations for 2015 to each county council are also available in the Dáil library.