Robert Troy
Question:1078. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the PSO funding for rural link services in each of the years 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [47034/17]
View answerTuesday, 7 November 2017
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My Department provides Current funding for the Rural Transport Programme (RTP) to the National Transport Authority (NTA) which has national responsibility for integrated local and rural transport, including, since 2012, management of the RTP.
In July of this year the NTA published the current figures in respect of the RTP for the years 2007 to 2016 in its Statistical Bulletin no 2/17 "Bus and Rail statistics for Ireland - State Funded Services", page 23. For the assistance of the Deputy I have copied these amounts from that publication.
|
Year |
RTP grant (€ millions) |
|
2007 |
€8.98 |
|
2008 |
€9.80 |
|
2009 |
€10.97 |
|
2010 |
€11.00 |
|
2011 |
€10.62 |
|
2012 |
€9.77 |
|
2013 |
€9.63 |
|
2014 |
€10.10* |
|
2015 |
€10.70* |
|
2016 |
€11.86 |
* Additional funds included in the above figures were made available to to Rural Transport in 2014 and 2015
The allocation for RTP funding for 2017 is €13.75 million.
In Budget 2018 I secured an additional €500,000 in current funding for the RTP next year. This builds on the increased funding in the last 2 years, which enabled the improvement of existing services and development of new routes.