Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 6 December 2012
170. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent of EU financial aid that has been received for major or minor rail or bus services or installations in each of the past three years to date. [54943/12]
View answerMy Department acts as an Intermediate Body for the BMW Regional Authority Operational Programme (2007 – 2013). One railway infrastructure project, the Elimination of Speed Restrictions at Portarlington, was approved for funding under the Programme in 2010. Total expenditure amounted to approximately €14.2m and the aid rate of 50% facilitated the drawdown of €7.1m in EU Funding.
The DART Underground project was identified as an eligible project under the Trans European Network-Transport (TEN-T) programme in 2008. TEN-T funding of €10m was approved towards geotechnical investigations and various surveys and studies during the initial design and planning stages. A final claim for this Project was recently submitted to the Trans-European Networks Agency. Once approved by the TEN-T Agency, the final claim will release drawdown of the full allocation of approximately €10m from the TEN-T Budget.
