Written answers

Thursday, 29 June 2017

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Improvement Schemes

Photo of Fiona O'LoughlinFiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been made available to reopen the L6042 Coughlanstown Road, Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30571/17]

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​​The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of local authorities, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from a local authority'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.

Kildare County Council was allocated grant funding of €18.9 million in January 2017 in respect of regional and local roads. It is open to Kildare County Council to fund works along the L6042 Coughlanstown Road, Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare from its grant allocation if it so wishes.

It is important to reiterate that the role of Exchequer grants for regional and local roads is to supplement local authorities in their spending in this area and it is also open to Kildare County Council to fund works from its own resources.

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