asked the Minister for Local Government the allocation made by his Department this year to carry out improvements on the Cork section of the Mallow-Killarney road.

I have not made a specific allocation to Cork County Council for the improvement of this section of the road in 1977. I have increased the total of the council's Road Fund grants for 1977 to £1,945,000, almost £½ million over the grants for 1976. The council are at liberty to carry out improvement works with the aid of their block grant which itself has been increased by £100,000 to £664,000.

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asked the Minister for Local Government the allocations made by his Department to carry out improvements on the Mallow-Fermoy road, County Cork in each of the years 1974, 1975 and 1976.

A grant of £30,000 was allocated for the improvement of the Mallow-Fermoy road in 1975. No improvement grants were made for it in 1974 and 1976.