Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the latter point, I am not sure whether the Brexit adjustment reserve funding applied. There was significant ramping up of investment in piers. I will speak to the Minister for agriculture in respect of this specific issue. My Department is open to seeing what we can do long term to facilitate certainty. Spike Island happened and I was involved in it at the time. The county manager asked me whether we could persuade the Department of Justice and the then Minister, Senator McDowell, to release Spike Island to the county council. The county council took it on board and the rest is history. I will examine this matter and discuss it with my colleagues and officials in the Department.

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