Tom Kitt
Question:63 Mr. T. Kitt asked the Minister for the Environment if the necessary finance will be provided for the construction of the Dundrum By-Pass.
Written Answers. - Dundrum (Dublin) By-Pass.
The cost of constructing or improving non-national roads, such as the proposed Dundrum by-pass, normally falls to be financed by the local authorities from their own resources supplemented by the discretionary grants for road improvements provided annually by my Department. The timing of the construction of schemes funded in this way is a matter for the relevant local authority. Only a limited amount of funding is available to the Department to provide special road grants for such projects.
The selection of non-national road projects for special road grant funding will be made in the light of the level of the annual road grant provisions available for such projects, the competing demands for projects of this type throughout the country, and compliance with the criteria for ERDF assistance under the operational programme on peripherality.
It is intended that an element of the Dundrum by-pass project, linking Sandyford Road to Ballinteer Road, will be built in conjunction with the Southern Cross Route which is scheduled for construction during the period 1992 to 1995, subject to the statutory procedures involved. I am not in a position at this stage to indicate when funding will be made available for the remainder of the by-pass project.