John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding the €400,000 grant which his Department pledged towards a €150 million extension of the runway at Waterford Airport last August, subject to the airport itself raising a further €850,000 through private sources and local authorities; if all necessary moneys have now been raised to allow work to proceed; if the Departmental grant of €400,000 has already been drawn down, and used for the Compulsory Purchase Order of 18 acres of land required to facilitate the extension; the time frame in which he expects the extension works to be completed; what will happen to the Departmental grant if the €850,000 is not raised by the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27416/14]

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