Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 623: To ask the Minister for Transport the position in relation to an application from a commission (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if sanction will be given for these necessary works to be carried out in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/07]

Pat Gallagher (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Responsibility for Arklow Harbour and for 12 other regional harbours operating under the Harbours Act 1946, transferred from the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources to the Department of Transport with effect from 1 January 2006.

Arklow Harbour Commissioners have recently sought additional funding for remedial works at the harbour. The funding proposals and those of other regional harbours will be considered in the context of the necessity to prioritise the limited available budget towards essential remedial works. The resources available to the Department for expenditure on regional harbours are being concentrated on essential remedial works, pending the transfer of the harbours to local authority or port company control, in accordance with the Ports Policy Statement, which was published in January 2005.