Séamus Kirk (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Narrow Water Bridge Project; the financial arrangements for the Narrow Water Bridge Project from Omeath, County Louth, to Warrenpoint, County Down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47541/12]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Narrow Water bridge project was submitted for INTERREG IVA funding and the steering group of the Special European Union Programmes Body (SEUPB) responsible for overseeing the INTERREG programme has recently approved funding of €17.4 million for the project.   

As part of the proposed financial arrangements, my Department together with the Department of Finance and Personnel in Northern Ireland will be contributing towards the cost of the project.  

Further work towards delivering the project now falls to Louth County Council, as the road authority responsible for the project in accordance with the provisions of the Roads Act, 1993, working with its Northern Ireland partners on the project.