Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when safety works will be undertaken at Mountain West, Oranmore, County Galway (details supplied). [12688/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads in Galway is the statutory responsibility of Galway County Council, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from the Council's 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. I announced the 2017 regional and local road allocations in January 2017 of which €210,000 is being provided to Galway County Council in respect of Safety Improvement Works for a variety of schemes across the County.

I am unclear as to which road safety works in Mountain West, Oranmore is being referred to by the Deputy, but Galway County Council has confirmed to my Department that Safety Improvement Works are scheduled for 2017 to improve a sightline at a road junction in the townland of Lisheenkyle East - near the Mountain West townland.  Subject to agreement with the landowner, the Council intends that the works at Lisheenkyle East would be completed in 2017.