Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 May 2021
115. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the status of the work carried out to date in respect of reducing speed limits within and surrounding residential housing estates (details supplied); the amount of funding in respect of 30km per hour speed limits his Department has provided since 2015 to date in 2021; and the breakdown of housing estates in County Kildare that have erected funded signage in their locality. [27771/21]
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, where applicable. In the case of the Dublin local authorities, these authorities largely self-finance their regional and local road maintenance and renewal grant programmes, 30 km/h and slow zone signs have been provided in 7,321 housing estates between 2015 and 2020 in local authority areas funded under my Department's the Regional and Local Road Grant Programme at a cost of €5,623,840. Funding of €817,125 has been allocated by the Department for the installation of 30 km/h and slow zone signage in 2021.
With respect to Kildare County Council, funding of €26,604 was paid to the local authority over the period 2015 to 2020 regarding the installation of speed limit signage and €344,025 has been allocated to the Council this year. My Department does not have details of the individual housing estates in County Kildare where signage has been erected or is being installed this year but this information should be available from the Council.
