asked the Minister for the Environment if, in view of the increased commitment to road development, he will make available such moneys as are needed to construct the road through Grange Abbey Estate, Donaghmeade, Dublin 5, in view of the trouble being caused for the residents in the area by the unfinished road for the past 20 years.
Written Answers. - Dublin Road Development.
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The cost of this scheme would, in accordance with normal practice, fall to be financed by the local authority from its own resources. The local authority may, at its discretion, use the block grant for roads paid annually by my Department to supplement expenditure from its own resources on such roads. A block grant of £2.654 million has been notified to the local authority for 1989.
Because of competing demands for other important road schemes in the country and the fact that the proposed road works does not form part of the network of national roads, I do not propose to make special road grant assistance available to Dublin Corporation in this case.