P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 329: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his Department's annual investments in the Dinish wharf development project at Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre, County Cork in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5888/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Development Project is a comprehensive integrated multi-annual project designed to address a range of navigational, safety and infrastructure deficits which existed in Castletownbere.

The investment in the total integrated project includes the removal of an old unsafe pier on Dinish Island and replacement of this with a new and extended pier on Dinish Island, however, expenditure on this specific element cannot be easily separated out from the other linked elements of the overall project.

The investment in the project to date includes:

Substantial dredging of the approach channel to the harbour.

Substantial dredging of a deep water berthing basin at the site of the new pier development.

Dredging of the inner bay and around the town pier.

Infilling of the foreshore near the town pier to facilitate a new RNLI station.

Disposal and export of a very substantial quantity of contaminated dredge spoil.

The removal of the "perch rock" which was a significant obstruction in the approach channel.

The construction of a 210 metre pier on Dinish Island.

The expenditure that my Department has incurred on the integrated Development project at Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre since 2006 is set out in a table.

Ulick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 330: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of moneys invested annually by his Department in the ferry terminal pontoons project at Rossaveal Fishery Harbour Centre, County Galway in 2004 to 2010 inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5896/10]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Work on the ferry terminal pontoons project at Rossaveal Fishery Harbour Centre commenced in 2007 and included the installation of necessary piles together with the fabrication and installation of the pontoons. The expenditure incurred by my Department is set out in a table.