Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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734. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to his funding announcement on 24 January 2017, the amount each local authority will receive to deal with eradicating Japanese knotweed, by county, in tabular form; and the local authority areas which have reported the existence of Japanese knotweed. [4500/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​My Department is participating in a joint initiative with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to map and treat the invasive plant species Japanese Knotweed. This involves a rolling programme led by TII.  

The amounts which will be allocated to different local authorities in 2017 is still under consideration in conjunction with TII.