Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 11 Nov 1999

Vol. 510 No. 5

Written Answers. - Roads Funding.

Paul McGrath

Ceist:

184 Mr. McGrath asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the amount of rate support grant, national road grants, regional county and other road grants and other grants under the appropriate headings paid to Westmeath County Council in each of the past five years and to date in 1999. [23089/99]

Minister for the Environment and Local Government (Mr. Dempsey):

The information requested in relation to the major local authority services is set out in the following table.

Purpose	1994£	1995£	1996£	1997£	1998£	1999(to 31 October)£
Rate Support Grant (a)	3,562,060	3,647,362	3,735,570	4,044,649 (b)(c)	2,980,893 (c)	5,476,044
Housing Construction	805,000	1,284,300	1,237,400	1,445,100 (b)(c)	1,683,400 (c)	1,154,100
Water and Sewerage Services	4,482,429	908,248	1,843,295	2,186,025 (b)(c)	3,892,443 (c)	3,875,034
National Roads (d)	–	–	–	–	–	–
Non-National Roads	1,983,000	2,151,700	2,527,000	3,656,000 (b)(c)	4,079,500 (c)	3,265,000

(a) Replaced by a general purpose grant during 1997, financed initially by the Local Government Equalisation Fund and from 1999, by the Local Government Fund)

(b) Rate Support Grant £1,931,757; Equalisation Fund Grant £2,112,892

(c) Payments in 1997 and 1998 were net of amounts retained by the local authority in the first instance in respect of motor tax receipts on private vehicles, under administrative arrangements applying to the Local Government Equalisation Fund. When these are factored in, the comparative allocations for these years were: 1997 – £5,694,102 and 1998 (Provisional) – £6,070,104.

(d) Responsibility for National Roads was transferred to the National Roads Authority with effect from 1 January 1994.