Michael P. Kitt
Question:94 Mr. M. Kitt asked the Minister for the Environment the proposals, if any, he has for county and regional roads in County Galway; and the amount of money to be made available. [2710/96]
Written Answers. - Galway Roads Funding.
I have announced a major expansion of the special restoration programme for regional and county roads which I launched in 1995 and details of the non-national road grant allocations for 1996 to each local authority. A booklet containing these details is available in the Oireachtas Library.
I have notified grant allocations of £8.563 million to Galway County Council this year for non-national roads, which represents an increase of £1,078,000 or 14 per cent on the total allocations for 1995. That figure, in turn. was £1,350,000 greater than the 1994 total, bringing the overall increase since 1994 to 40 per cent.