Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 16 Apr 1996

Vol. 463 No. 8

Written Answers. - Road Grants.

Rory O'Hanlon

Question:

102 Dr. O'Hanlon asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of funding allocated for discretionary road grants in respect of county and regional roads in counties Monaghan and Cavan in each of the years from 1990 to date. [7570/96]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin)

Grant payments to county councils for non-national roads are not subdivided on the basis of road categories.

The information requested is set out in the following table:

Year	Cavan County Council Payments	Monaghan County Council Payments
	£'000	£'000
1990	2,680	1,941
1991	2,849	2,328
1992	3,536	2,468
1993	3,393	2,415
1994	2,845	1,988
1995	3,170(970)	2,702(861)
1996	3,831(3,209)	3,182(2,685)

Notes:

1. Figures for 1996 represent allocations.

2. The figures for 1995 and 1996 include grants under the Restoration Programme for regional and local roads initiated in 1995; the amounts involved are shown in parentheses.

3. Specific grant allocations under the EU co-financed scheme, the Interreg programme and the Peace Initiative, together with grants for the reopening of cross-Border roads, are not included.