The maintenance and improvement of non-national roads, including their initial selection-prioritisation under the various grant categories, is a matter for Waterford Corporation, to be funded from its own resources, supplemented by grants from the local Government fund. The outer ring road in Waterford city was not among the projects for which funding was sought by Waterford Corporation under the specific improvement grants scheme for 2000.
In the recently launched Action on Housing policy statement, the Government announced an additional investment programme, at an overall cost of £200 million, for non-national road schemes supporting residential and other developments. My Department will now seek formal proposals in relation to this programme from a limited number of local authorities, including Waterford Corporation, in areas of particularly high developmental pressure.