Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Does Dr. Beamish accept that, by and large, the vast majority of funding that goes to those is grant-aided by the Department and that has traditionally been the case? Therefore, the Department's funding very much dictates what can be done and it has been very insufficient, given the potential of many of those smaller piers and harbours to contribute. They may be small in the wider scheme of things but they have potential, yet they are being starved of the funding that would be required to keep them up to standard.