My Department recently received a request for funding from Louth County Council regarding the matter raised by the Deputy. However, my Department has no function regarding road-funding of any type.
The provision of non-national roads in County Louth is a matter for Louth County Council, to be funded from its own resources and supplemented by grants provided by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Furthermore, as the Deputy may be aware, the provision, improvement and maintenance — including the allocation of funding to individual projects — of national roads, is a matter for the National Roads Authority, which comes under the aegis of the Department of Transport.