Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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861. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans for the development of the Limerick city footbridge; his plans to provide funding for such projects over the coming years and how much funding will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12854/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​Plans for the development of the proposed Limerick City Footbridge are the responsibility of Limerick City and County Council.  Provision has been made for this Department to provide grant assistance to the Council and an allocation of €150,000 has been made this year with a view to facilitating the Council in progressing project development. In this context the Council has been asked to provide the supporting documentation required for consideration of the project under the strategic grant scheme category.

Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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862. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Douglas east-west link bridge, County Cork; his plans to provide funding for this project over the coming years and how much funding will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12855/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads in its area is a statutory function of the relevant road authority in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act, 1993.  Works on such roads are a matter for the relevant local authority to be funded from its own resources supplemented by State road grants.  The initial selection and prioritisation of projects to be funded from these monies is a matter for each local authority.  My Department has not received any recent application for grant assistance relating to a Douglas East-West Link.

Given the cutbacks since the financial crisis in State funding for regional and local roads, it has been necessary to curtail the grant programmes for regional and local road improvement schemes and for major realignment schemes in order to protect the funding available for the maintenance of the existing network.