Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 399: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position of a project (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the tenders for construction have gone out; when construction is expected to begin; and when the centre will open. [21560/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Some €3.81 million has been allocated by my Department under the National Development Plan 2000-2006 for the construction of a new Visitor Centre to serve Ballycroy National Park, County Mayo, and a site has been acquired in the village of Ballycroy.

Planning permission had been obtained by the Office of Public Works for the construction of the Centre. As it was not possible to proceed with the access envisaged in the original planning application, a revised planning application for an alternative site entrance through my Department's lands was recently submitted to Mayo County Council. The Office of Public Works have completed the pre-qualification process for the tendering of building, mechanical and electrical works and are in a position to advance the tendering process assuming a favourable decision on the revised planning application.