Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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930. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of capital spending on transport infrastructure, by county, in each of the years 2010 to 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1093/16]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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It is not possible to give a breakdown of capital spend on transport on a county by county basis as requested by the Deputy as some capital spend cannot be allocated to a specific county (e.g. rail safety management systems, signalling and rolling stock, Bus Eireann buses).

Details of the regional and local road grant payments to county councils from 2010-2015 are outlined in the regional and local road grant payment booklets which are available in the Dáil Library. With regard to national roads, details of the actual drawdown of funding for these roads are a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). Overall capital spend on transport by the Exchequer can be found in the annual Estimates publication.

As part of work undertaken to define a 'Strategic Framework for Investment in Land Transport', my Department's Economic and Financial Evaluation Unit undertook research into the level and composition of transport investment historically. As part of this work, the total level of investment in land transport was analysed by the Central Statistics Office. However, total investment in these items, defined as Gross Fixed Capital Formation, is not available on a regional basis. Further details on this analysis are contained in SFILT Background Paper 10 which is entitled 'Historical Trends and International Benchmarking' and is published on the websites of my Department at and the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service at .