Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the Coonagh-Knockalisheen Road, Limerick following the receivership of a company (details supplied); if an alternative contractor has been identified to complete the project. [21007/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from Councils' own resources supplemented by State road grants. 

Limerick County Council is the contracting authority for the Coonagh to Knockalisheen Distributor Road project.  The Council has advised my officials that following on from the main contractor entering receivership, revised contract documents are currently being drafted in order to progress, as soon as possible, the works that have already commenced on the Ballygrennan Bridge which is over the Galway-Ennis railway line.

Separately, contract documents are also being prepared to retender for the construction of the remainder of the project.