Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 February 2015
635. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of funding of €16.2 million, for the repair of damage caused by severe weather, to each local authority, resulting from the damage in the period from December 2013 to January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8258/15]
View answerThe improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of each local authority, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from local authorities' own resources supplemented by State road grants. The initial selection and prioritisation of works to be funded is also a matter for the local authority.
The Government approved funding of €16.2 million for the repair of damage caused by severe weather. Based on projected expenditure by Councils €14.1 million was included in my Department's budget in 2014 to cover expenditure related to severe weather and a provision of €2.1 was carried forward to 2015.
Actual expenditure by local authorities in 2014 to repair roads damaged as a result of the severe weather during the period 16 December 2013 – 6 January was as follows.
|
Local Authority |
Paid 2014 |
|
Cork City Council |
25,500 |
|
Cork County Council |
710,292 |
|
Clare County Council |
1,612,557 |
|
Carlow County Council |
16,000 |
|
Dublin City Council |
100,000 |
|
Donegal County Council |
115,892 |
|
Galway City Council |
44,500 |
|
Galway County Council |
1,442,405 |
|
Kerry County Council |
575,291 |
|
Limerick County Council |
12,332 |
|
Longford County Council |
150,464 |
|
Louth County Council |
75,000 |
|
Leitrim County Council |
245,250 |
|
Laois County Council |
211,690 |
|
Meath County Council |
2,800 |
|
Mayo County Council |
1,225,890 |
|
Sligo County Council |
153,585 |
|
North Tipperary County Council |
547,489 |
|
South Tipperary County Council |
772,454 |
|
Waterford County Council |
3,878,000 |
|
Wexford County Council |
720,033 |
|
Total: |
12,637,424 |
On 3rd February, I announced the 2015 regional and local roads allocations to local authorities and these allocations included €3.42 million towards costs related to severe weather events in addition to the €2.1 million carried over from 2014. The details of the allocations are in the regional and local roads allocations booklet which is in the Dáil Library.
