AQW 229/16-21

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 27/05/2016
Answered On Date: 29/07/2016
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail how much was spent by the Department for Regional Development to rebuild and reinstate roads that were eroded, damaged or destroyed by coastal erosion and/or tidal surges; each year for the past 10 years (from April 2005 to the end of March 2016), broken down per county.

Answer:

My Department does not record expenditure at the specific level of detail in order to respond in the format requested.

The member may, however, be interested to know that extensive coastal erosion work has been undertaken by the former Department for Regional Development over the past five years comprising of sea defence strengthening, rock armouring, rock face netting, slope stabilisation and repairs to sea walls in County Down and along the A2 Coast Road in County Antrim. The estimated expenditure arising from the engineering works that were carried out over the past five years is illustrated below for both Down and Antrim.

2011 \ 2012 - £287,000

2012 \ 2013 - £1,052,000

2013 \ 2014 - £2,026,000

2014 \ 2015 - £764,500

2015 \ 2016 - £292,000