Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the following information in tabular form: grant assistance from his Department for investment in piers and harbours in County Donegal for the years 2006 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014. [36677/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Development Programme which my Department administers on an annual basis provides funding for capital works at the six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres including Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre. In addition, the programme also provides funding, where Exchequer funds allow, for the development and repair of Local Authority owned piers, harbours and slipways. The table below details the expenditure at Killybegs Fishery Harbour Centre & Donegal Navigational Lights and funding allocated to Donegal County Council under the Department’s capital programme from 2006 onwards.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to allocate funding to enable the completion of the breakwater at Greencastle harbour, County Donegal. [36678/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Greencastle harbour is in the ownership of Donegal County Council and responsibility for its development, repair and maintenance rests with the Local Authority in the first instance. My Department, however provides funding for the development and repair of Local Authority owned piers, harbours and slipways under the annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.

On 1 May 2014 all coastal Local Authorities were requested to submit applications for funding under the 2014 Fishery Harbour & Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme.

My Department received an application from Donegal County Council for a total of 18 projects, one of which involved the deployment of 90m of pontoons and 60m of floating breakwater at Greencastle.

I am pleased to inform the Deputy that this project was approved funding under my Department's Programme. Funding in the amount of €137,500 or 75% of the cost of the project has been approved.

Any future application submitted by Donegal County Council in respect of Greencastle under the Capital Programme in future years will be given consideration in the context of available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.