asked the Minister for the Environment the amount spent in each of the years 1970 to 1981 inclusive and the estimate for 1982 on the construction and repair of roads in all the counties of Leinster.

15.

asked the Minister for the Environment the amount spent in each of the years 1980 to 1981 and the estimate for 1982 in respect of the construction and repair of roads in all the counties of Munster.

16.

asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of money spent in 1979, 1980 and 1981 on the construction and repair of roads in counties Dublin, Limerick, Clare, Cork and Kildare.

(Dublin South-East): With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Question Nos. 14, 15 and 16 together and as the reply is in tabular form I propose to circulate it with the Official Report. The reply is as follows:

The following tables of the amounts expended on construction, improvement, maintenance and repair of public roads (including bridges) in each of the counties in question, in each of the years 1970 — 1980 inclusive, have been compiled from information provided by the road authorities concerned. It is not possible to provide corresponding figures in respect of 1982.

County Carlow

County Dublin

County Kildare

County Kilkenny

County Laois

County Longford

County Louth

County Meath

County Offaly

County Westmeath

County Wexford

County Wicklow

County Clare

County Cork

County Kerry

County Limerick

County Tipperary (North Riding)

County Tipperary (South Riding)

County Waterford

Notes:

1. The figures for each county include expenditure on both rural and urban roads, e.g. the figures for County Cork include expenditure in Cork County Borough and in the Urban Districts of Clonakilty, Cobh, Fermoy, Kinsale, Macroom, Mallow, Midleton, Skibbereen and Youghal, just as the figures for County Dublin include expenditure in Dublin County Borough and Dún Laoghaire Borough and the figures for Tipperary South Riding include expenditure in Clonmel Borough and the Urban Districts of Carrick-on-Suir, Cashel and Tipperary.

2. The figures for 1970-1973 inclusive relate to the financial year ended 31 March; the figures for 1974 relate to the 9-month period 1 April 1974-31 December 1974; the figures for 1975-1981 relate to the financial year ended 31 December.

3. The figures do not include expenditure on public lighting, traffic control, road safety, loan charges or overhead costs.

4. As the figures relate to public roads (roads for which legal responsibility for their maintenance and improvement is vested in road authorities) they do not include expenditure on any works on non-public roads which the road authorities in question may have executed as agent for any public organisation or for any private organisation or individual e.g. any works on non-public roads serving airports, seaports, electricity-generating stations, aviation-control stations, radio-cum-television transmitters, industrial estates, housing estates, mines, bogs, forests, fisheries, farmsteads and places of historic, scenic or recreational attraction.