Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
10:00 am
Dr. Cecil Beamish:
On the Deputy's second point, the dredging work is under way this summer, and that has been a longstanding requirement in Dunmore East. The next significant capital project on the line in terms of Dunmore East that is being examined is a breakwater which would provide benefit also to the marine leisure side of the harbour in terms of improved shelter over the winter and perhaps allow the development of small craft berthing on the leisure side of the harbour which has been growing very rapidly. The exploratory work on what type of breakwater, its positioning and the scale and cost of it is getting under way over the next period as we move through the dredging work. We will be deepening the entrance channel as part of the dredging exercise. The overall dredging will be going deeper than was envisaged if had we gone ahead with it last year. We are getting further output this year.
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