Johnny Guirke (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any projects under his remit are on hold due to Capital Funding pressures; if he will indicate the projects, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12636/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Revised National Development Plan, provides for €35bn in investment from 2021-2030 inclusive. The investment encompasses all transport modes, including active travel, EV infrastructure, public transport, road networks, and aviation and maritime security and safety.

Over 80% of funding goes to public transport and road related investment. The review of the National Development Plan (NDP) in 2020 provided an opportunity to reassess investment plans and update project costings across the public transport capital investment programme, and the revised NDP 2021 – 2030 sets out sets out the 10-year capital ceiling for the programme. Public transport infrastructure projects are progressed in line with both the availability of funding under the NDP envelope and the allocations provided to the programme under the annual Estimates process.

Approximately €491m of exchequer capital funds have been provided for national roads through Transport Infrastructure Ireland to local authorities in 2023. This included approximately €237 million for new roads projects. These allocations were announced by TII and the Department of Transport on 16th February 2023.

The Government earmarked €5.1bn for capital spending on new national roads projects from 2021 to 2030 as part of the NDP. The greater portion of this funding becomes available in the second half of the decade which means that there is a constraint on the funding available for new projects in the period to 2025. Funding allocations are determined on an annual basis.