Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase the funding allocation to Meath County Council for the community involvement scheme for the restoration and upgrading of local roads and lanes in view of its positive take up. [41973/17]

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

The Community Involvement Scheme (CIS)  remains in place in 2017 on the basis that local authorities may set aside 7.5% of their Restoration Improvement (RI) and Restoration Maintenance (RM) grants for CIS schemes if they so wish. In the case of Meath this allows the Council to set aside over €548k from RI and €138k from RM for CIS if they so wish.

Future arrangements in relation to CIS will now be assessed in the context of the allocations made as part of the Capital Plan Review.