Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 178: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will provide the funding required for the environmental impact study of Baltimore Harbour, so that progress can be made on the Baltimore Harbour development plan. [12466/04]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Officials from my Department and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government are considering the modalities for the transfer of Baltimore Harbour and certain other harbours operating under the Harbours Act 1946 to local authority ownership. I expect that the work will take some months to come to fruition as it involves, inter alia, the undertaking of an audit of the assets and liabilities of the harbours to be transferred. As part of the audit process, plans for the further development of the harbours and the funding of such developments will be considered.