Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to allocate the funds necessary to progress road N2 Clontibret-to-the-Border and N2 Ardee-to-Castleblayney road schemes in 2025. [22864/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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As Minister for Transport, I have responsibility for overall policy and exchequer funding in relation to the National Roads Programme. Under the Roads Acts 1993-2015 and in line with the National Development Plan (NDP), the planning, design and construction of individual national roads is a matter for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), in conjunction with the local authorities concerned. This is also subject to the Infrastructure Guidelines and the necessary statutory approvals.

National roads allocations for 2025 were announced on March 28th. I can confirm that an allocation of €3,000,000 was made to the N2 Clontibret to the Border project in 2025. While it was not possible to allocate funding for the N2 Ardee to Castleblayney project this year, the delivery programme for the project will be kept under review for 2026 and considered in terms of the overall funding envelope available to TII.