Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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217. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to approve further funding to Galway County Council for storm remedial and prevention works sent to the Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management on 7 April 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49041/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides funding, where exchequer funds allow, for the development and repair of Local Authority owned piers and slipways under the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme.On the 20^thMarch this year, as part of the Governments overall co-ordinated response to the damage caused by the winter storms, I approved funding in the amount of €2.016 million for a total of 15 projects for Galway County Council.

Applications for payment of grants have been submitted by Galway County Council for all 15 Storm Damage projects, the total claims amount to €1.948 million. My Department are currently processing these claims.

The Storm Damage Programme was an exceptional, once off measure as part of the Government’s overall response to the damage inflicted on our national piers and harbours infrastructure during the winter storms earlier this year and funding was approved for 2014 only. There are no plans to continue the funding of the Storm Damage Programme into 2015.