Written Answers. - Border County Roads. Tuesday, 5 March 1996

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  135.  Mr. B. Ahern      asked the Minister for the Environment      the spending on roads national, secondary and county in the six Border counties in each of the years from 1989 to 1995; and the amount of funding from each source local authority and central Government for total road spending in each county. [4899/96]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin):    Details of national and non-national road grant payments and own resources expenditure on roads by local authorities in the period 1989-1995 are contained in the booklet “State Grant Payments to Local Authorities for National, Non-National and Non-Public Accommodation Roads and own resources expenditure by Local Authorities on National and Non-National Roads in the period 1986-95” which is available in the Oireachtas Library.

  136.  Mr. B. Ahern      asked the Minister for the Environment      the sums of money made available in each of the years from 1989 to 1995 by the EU to the Government for the purposes of road improvement or maintenance in the six Border counties. [4900/96]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin):    State funding for improvement works on public roads in the six Border counties in the period 1989 to 1995 attracted the following amounts of EU assistance:

Road maintenance does not qualify for EU assistance.

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