asked the Minister for the Environment if it is the intention of the Government to make finance available for the Fonthill-Newlands Road, Clondalkin area, this year.
Written Answers. - Block Grants.
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Dublin County Council have been advised that there is no immediate prospect of special road grants being made available for the construction of a new road from Fonthill to Newlands or for the construction of sections of such a road. However, I am advised that substantial relief will be afforded to the Clondalkin area with the construction of the Naas Road-Galway Road section of the Dublin Ring Road, which is scheduled to commence this year.
The State grants for roads allocated to the local authority for 1986 total £19.421 million and include a block grant of £972,000 which is 20 per cent greater than the corresponding grant notified to the local authority last year. It is open to the local authority to use the block grant to supplement funds provided from their own resources for work on the Newlands-Fonthill Road.
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asked the Minister for the Environment if it is the intention of the Government to make finance available for the Western Parkway Road this current year.
To date, road grant commitments totalling £9,696 million have been notified to Dublin County Council in respect of the Western Ring Road. This includes grant commitments of £2.4 million in 1986.