Vol. 413 No. 6
45 Mr. Boylan asked the Minister for the Environment if it is his intention to spend the Structural Funds being allocated to this country on expensive alternative forms of transport for Dublin city and county thereby depriving the rest of the country of an acceptable standard of road structure.
The framework for European Community aid to investment in transport infrastructure in Ireland over the five-year period 1989 to 1993 is the Operational Programme on Peripherality which contains information on the major projects planned to commence and/or be completed during the period. Copies of the programme are available in the Dáil Library. Road investment under this programme amounts to £615 million, of which the EC is providing £416 million. This is broken down into a £511 million investment in national primary roads (EC aid of £364 million) and £104 million for non-national primary roads (EC aid of £52 million). The programme involves total investment of £818 million in roads and other transport infrastructure, of which the EC is providing about £516 million.
