Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 March 2021
23. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport the length of local public roads eligible for maintenance funding within each local authority; the funding allocated to each local authority in 2020 for this purpose in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16087/21]
View answerThe improvement and maintenance of regional and local roads is the statutory responsibility of local authorities, in accordance with the provisions of Section 13 of the Roads Act 1993. Works on those roads are funded from the Council's own resources supplemented by State road grants. Arising from the arrangements in place in relation to Local Property Tax receipts, the four Dublin Councils are largely self-funding for works on regional and local roads since 2015 and my Department no longer provides grants to these Councils under the main regional and local road grant categories.
Within the budget available to the Department, grant funding is allocated on as fair and equitable a basis as possible. In this context, grants in the main grant categories are allocated based on the length of regional and local roads within a local authority area of responsibility with additional weighting based on contributing traffic factors in specific areas.
The length of regional and local roads within each local authority that have been used as a basis for maintenance grant allocations with effect from 2020 is set out in the table below.
|
Local Authority |
Regional km |
Local km |
Total km |
|
Carlow |
187,992 |
1,062,079 |
1,250,072 |
|
Cavan |
404,073 |
2,503,646 |
2,907,718 |
|
Clare |
634,231 |
3,478,256 |
4,112,488 |
|
Cork |
1,320,362 |
10,420,451 |
11,740,813 |
|
Donegal |
785,569 |
5,383,828 |
6,169,397 |
|
Galway |
906,520 |
5,625,337 |
6,531,857 |
|
Kerry |
534,738 |
3,918,603 |
4,453,341 |
|
Kildare |
486,993 |
1,970,674 |
2,457,666 |
|
Kilkenny |
422,128 |
2,626,103 |
3,048,231 |
|
Laois |
346,302 |
1,863,742 |
2,210,044 |
|
Leitrim |
333,485 |
1,794,222 |
2,127,708 |
|
Limerick |
540,576 |
3,273,958 |
3,814,534 |
|
Longford |
152,440 |
1,399,716 |
1,552,156 |
|
Louth |
286,445 |
1,212,031 |
1,498,476 |
|
Mayo |
624,764 |
5,612,795 |
6,237,560 |
|
Meath |
577,973 |
2,603,664 |
3,181,637 |
|
Monaghan |
297,452 |
2,155,868 |
2,453,320 |
|
Offaly |
392,610 |
1,696,194 |
2,088,804 |
|
Roscommon |
375,896 |
3,376,993 |
3,752,889 |
|
Sligo |
236,195 |
2,443,127 |
2,679,322 |
|
Tipperary |
898,924 |
4,672,198 |
5,571,123 |
|
Waterford |
438,158 |
2,380,631 |
2,818,790 |
|
Westmeath |
307,042 |
1,900,654 |
2,207,694 |
|
Wexford |
476,996 |
3,003,349 |
3,480,345 |
|
Wicklow |
465,015 |
1,821,763 |
2,286,778 |
|
Cork City |
98,380 |
804,113 |
902,494 |
|
Galway City |
39,244 |
247,168 |
286,413 |
|
Total |
12,570,503 |
79,251,163 |
91,821,670 |
As regards the funding allocated to each local authority in 2020, details of the regional and local road grant allocations and payments to local authorities are outlined in the regional and local road allocations and payments booklets which are available in the Oireachtas Library.
