A total of €63,930 has been allocated for improvements to roads in the south Tipperary area.

Éamon Ó Cuív, Dáil Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs has announced the allocatiion under the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) Roads in CLÁR areas. CLÁR is a programme designed to tackle the problem of depopulation, decline and lack of services in rural areas.

Local Improvement Scheme Roads are non-county roads, often leading to houses and important community amenities such as graveyards, beaches, piers, mountains, etc. There must be more than one landholder on an LIS road and the road must be open to the public.

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This year for every €2 spent by Local Authorities on LIS Roads scheme in CLÁR areas (on non-public roads), the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will provide an additional €1 from CLÁR funding for works on further LIS roads up to a maximum of €500k.

The CLÁR programme is a targeted investment programme for rural areas that suffered more than a 35 per cent drop in population between 1926 and 2002. The programme covers parts of 22 counties and all of County Leitrim and benefits a population of nearly 727,000. CLÁR schemes cover a wide variety of developments such as village, housing and schools enhancement, electricity conversion, roads, water supply, sewerage disposal, health, coastal, sports and community projects.

(GK/JM)