Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his capital expenditure for the calendar year 2018 from January to December, excluding expenditure by Transport Infrastructure Ireland under the heading of B3 - Road Improvement, Maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7553/19]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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During 2018 my Department invested in Economic and Social infrastructure throughout the entire country. This saw investment across six programmes: Aviation, Road transport (both national and regional roads), Public Transport, Maritime services, supporting Sport and promoting Tourism. The provisional Outturn for 2018 shows that total Capital Investment during 2018 was €1,331m and that the provisional current expenditure was €738m.

Investment in the roads programme under Subhead B3 is divided into both capital and current investment.

Capital investment under B.3 relating to road construction and improvement for 2018, is set out as follows:

B.3.1 Construction of National Roads (€312m)

B.3.4 PPP related Payments (€122m)

B.3.5.2 Regional and Local Roads Improvement (€381m)

Current investment under B.3 relating to roads maintenance is set out as follows:

B.3.2 TII National Roads Maintenance (€34.5m)

B.3.5.1 Regional and Local Roads Maintenance (€51.3m)

Therefore, excluding expenditure under Subhead B3 would mean that our investment during 2018 on our other priority programmes saw levels of Capital Investment of €516m and current expenditure of €652m.