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Dáil Éireann - Volume 397 - 27 March, 1990

Written Answers. - Road Grants.

128. Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for the Environment the total amount of funds allocated to each local authority in 1990 in respect of main and country roads; if he will equate same with (a) the population in the local authority area and (b) the average volume of vehicular traffic per mile of road as determined by traffic counts in each local authority area; the counties or local authority areas which have (a) the lowest/highest level of allocation per head of population and (b) the lowest/highest level of allocation per mile of road; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Flynn): Following are details of the amounts of road grants allocated to each county council for regional and county roads in 1990 together with the population of the County in 1986:

[1199][1200] Amounts of Road Grants Allocated and Population

Road Grants Allocated 1990 (£'000)

Population

1

2

3

4

5

6

Block Grants

Supplementary Block Grant for Improvements

Forest Access Roads

Flood Relief

Special Grants

Total

Carlow

735

—

—

—

20

755

40,986

Cavan

1,900

500

—

—

55

2,455

53,965

Clare

2,577

400

65

—

30

3,072

91,344

Cork

7,676

—

—

418

140

8,234

279,464

Donegal

4,132

—

95

51

145

4,423

129,664

Dublin

1,315

—

—

—

1,030

2,345

518,700

Galway

4,097

500

—

114

364

5,075

131,448

Kerry

2,823

200

25

—

403

3,451

124,159

Kildare

1.301

700

—

—

410

2,411

116,247

Kilkenny

1,867

—

—

—

20

1,887

73,186

Laois

1,421

250

—

—

150

1,821

53,284

Leitrim

1,471

300

65

44

155

2,035

27,035

Limerick

2,200

—

40

—

20

2,260

108,290

Longford

992

300

—

—

—

1,292

31,496

Louth

739

300

—

44

50

1,133

911,810

Mayo

3,621

—

140

222

250

4,233

115,184

Meath

1,973

300

—

—

38

2,311

103,881

Monaghan

1,570

300

—

—

20

1,890

52,379

Offaly

1,188

250

—

—

640

2,078

59,835

Roscommon

2,485

200

70

—

120

2,875

54,592

Sligo

1,636

—

—

—

100

1,736

56,046

Tipperary NR

1,743

—

—

—

—

1,743

59,522

Tipperary SR

1,832

—

—

—

—

1,832

77,097

Waterford

1,648

—

—

65

30

1,743

51,622

Westmeath

1,345

—

—

—

20

1,365

63,379

Wexford

2,081

—

—

22

40

2,143

102,552

Wicklow

1,282

—

—

—

750

2,032

94,542

The block grants at column 1 above, apart from those for Dublin County Council, were allocated strictly in proportion to the mileage of regional and county roads in each county. They are, on average, 37 per cent higher than the equivalent grants notified in 1989. In the case of Dublin County Council, the total grant, while higher than would be appropriate on a road mileage basis, represents an increase of 3 per cent compared with 1989.

The other categories of grants were allocated on the basis of needs identified in relation to the improvement of the roads in question. I am satisfied that all county councils have received their fair share of the funds available to me for regional and county roads in 1990.

A traffic counting programme operated by the environmental research unit of my Department provides an estimate of total vehicle miles of travel on all regional and county roads in the State on the basis of a sampling system. The system was not designed to provide an estimate of the proportion of this travel undertaken in each local authority area. Accordingly, reliable figures of the average volume of vehicular traffic per mile of regional and county road per local authority area are not available.

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