Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide funds for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in order to make necessary repairs to Coliemore Harbour, to ensure the restoration of the traditional Coliemore Harbour to Dalkey Island ferry trips; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42037/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Coliemore Harbour is in the ownership of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and responsibility for its repair and maintenance rests with that Council in the first instance.

My Department has however, provided funding for the development and repair of Local Authority owned harbours, piers and slipways in 2012 as part of the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme. No application for funding was received form Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in 2012 for works at Coilemore Harbour.

Any application submitted by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council under the Capital Programme in future years will be given consideration based on Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.