asked the Minister for Local Government if he will make available from the Road Fund or from Subhead K of the Vote for his Department a grant to the local development association for the provision of a road, car parks and caravan sites to the extensive and popular strand of Rossbeigh, County Kerry.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Rossbeigh (Kerry) Strand.
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Road Fund grants are confined to road authorities and to works on public roads. It is for Kerry County Council to decide in the first instance on the schemes to be executed under the various Road Fund grants allocated to them. For 1961-62, these grants include a main road improvement grant of £58,000 and a county road improvement grant of £155,200, as well as a special grant for tourist roads of £55,000.
Grants from Subhead K of the Vote for my Department are confined to expenditure on the acquisition, clearance and improvement of derelict sites. No application for a grant under this scheme has been received in my Department in respect of any derelict site at Rossbeigh.
Is the Minister aware that Kerry County Council made representations to Bord Fáilte for grants for the development of Rossbeigh, which is a tourist centre, and were refused? Where, therefore, shall we apply for money for this development if the Minister or Bord Fáilte will not come to our rescue?
I am afraid Subhead K is certainly not the subhead which can apply in this case, unless there is a question of the development of a derelict site and we have no knowledge of that.
Is any other Department responsible?
The Deputy will have to try that on another day.