Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 March 2004
149 Ms Enright asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of road in kilometres in County Laois that are eligible to receive funding from his Department; if he will provide a breakdown, in this respect, on the status of these roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9383/04]
View answer150 Ms Enright asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of road, in kilometres, in County Offaly that are eligible to receive funding from his Department; if he will provide a breakdown, in this respect, on the status of these roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9384/04]
View answer151 Ms Enright asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of road, in kilometres, in County Roscommon that are eligible to receive funding from his Department; if he will provide a breakdown, in this respect, on the status of these roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9385/04]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 149 to 151, inclusive, together.
For the purposes of the non-national roads programme, my Department allocates discretionary maintenance, discretionary improvement and restoration maintenance grant allocations to county councils on the basis of length of road in their area. The restoration improvement grant is allocated in line with a multi-annual programme submitted by each county council for the 2002-05 period, taking account particularly of length of road and also the results of the pavement condition study of 1996. A further pavement condition survey is currently under way and the results will be taken into account in the allocations for 2005 and subsequent years.
The total length of non-national roads in the Laois, Offaly and Roscommon County Council areas, based on revised road schedules submitted by the county councils in 2003, are set out in the table below. My Department also provides grants to local authorities, under the local improvement scheme, in respect of non-public roads. Information on the length of these roads is not available in my Department.
|
Local Authority |
Regional roads |
Local primary roads |
Local secondary roads |
Local tertiary roads |
Total |
|
Laois County Council |
288.54 |
607.78 |
596.6 |
479.62 |
1,972.54 |
|
Offaly County Council |
343.11 |
521.53 |
586.07 |
492.25 |
1,942.96 |
|
Roscommon County Council |
343.71 |
1,131.31 |
1,395.18 |
850.14 |
3,720.34 |
