Written answers
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Fishing Industry Development
5:00 pm
Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 34: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the developments that her Department will be assisting in the Cork Kerry region in relation to fisheries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6878/08]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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On Monday 18th February, 2008, the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, John Browne T.D., announced details of the Fishery Harbours and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme for 2008, which is worth over €23m.
Funding was allocated to projects that were identified as priorities by both the Local Authorities and the Department's Engineering Division. In addition to the funding of the six main Fishery Harbour Centres, the 2008 programme also provides for significant expenditure on various small harbours. These are harbours around our coastline under Local Authority control that both supplement and underpin the activities undertaken in our larger harbours.
One of the major projects being funded in the Cork/Kerry region is at Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre where significant development work is being undertaken in 2008. The total investment for 2008 is in excess of €9.5m which includes an allocation of €8m for the new quay construction works. The development of the harbour will allow for larger vessels carrying deeper draft and will accommodate all of the new modern vessels which have entered the Castletownbere fleet.
This year's investment also includes grant-aid of €1m for the provision of a lifeboat shore facility for the RNLI which is due to be constructed on reclaimed foreshore within Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre.
The full list of projects in Counties Cork and Kerry receiving funding in 2008 is given in the following table.
| Project | € |
| Fishery Harbour Centres | |
| Safety and maintenance (Castletownbere and Dingle) | 550,000 |
| Disability access (Castletownbere and Dingle) | 100,000 |
| Castletownbere | |
| Dinish wharf extension | 8,000,000 |
| RNLI pontoon | 1,000,000 |
| Effluent treatment upgrade | 40,000 |
| Mainland quay extension and provision of slipway | 200,000 |
| Dingle | |
| Dingle harbour dredging | 40,000 |
| Removal of old slipway | 60,000 |
| Additional berthing pontoons | 765,000 |
| Local Authority Projects Managed by Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Engineering Division) | |
| Kerry County Council | |
| Cromane — Construction of pier, breakwater, access road anddredging of entrance channel | 750,000 |
| Other Local Authority Projects | |
| Cork County Council (Western Division) | |
| Crookhaven — Phase 1 of harbour development | 525,000 |
| Adams Quay Kinsale — Redevelopment of pier | 105,399 |
| Cape Clear — Computer generated modelling survey | 100,000 |
| Cork County Council | |
| Ballycotton — Remedial works to breakwater | 500,000 |
| Garnish Pier — Phase 3 slipway development | 192,084 |
| Kerry County Council | |
| Tarbert — Continuation of pier stabilisation works | 37,500 |
| Scraggane — Completion of pier extension works | 75,000 |
| Knightstown — Completion of concrete breakwater | 75,000 |
| Renard — Pier remedial works | 600,000 |
| Tahilla — Provision of concrete slipway | 75,000 |
| Caherciveen — Completion of slipway and apron | 5,625 |
The National Development Plan 2007-2013 has earmarked a minimum of €216 million for the Seafood Development Sub-Programme. The central goal of this investment is to ensure the long term economic, social and environmental sustainability of the fisheries industry thereby maintaining the value of its activity to the costal and rural communities who rely on it and to the economy as a whole.
Costal communities dependent on the fisheries industry in the Cork/Kerry region will be in a position to continue to avail of funding under various schemes which will be introduced to assist sustainable development of fisheries areas in accordance with the European Fisheries Fund.
These schemes will be administered by Bord Iascaigh Mhara.
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