Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of road block funding grants allocated to each county for each of the years 2014, 2015 and to date in 2016 in tabular form. [38798/16]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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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.

Following the re-structuring of the local authorities in 2014 and the abolition of the former Urban District Councils there are no longer separate block grants for urban councils. The regional and local road grant allocations and payments made to local authorities in the period 2014 to 2015 are included in the allocation and payment booklets available in the Dáil library. The regional and local road grant allocation booklet for 2016 is also available in the Dáil library.