Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocations approved for each local authority in 2014 and the amount paid to each of these local authorities in 2014; the funding allocated to these local authorities in 2015; the amounts paid to the local authorities to date in 2015 following the Government decision of the 11 February 2014 to allocate funding for the clean up, repair and restoration works in relation to public infrastructure damaged in the period 13 December 2013 to 6 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5246/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Local Authority harbours, piers and slipways are owned by the Local Authorities themselves and responsibility for their 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.

In 2014, in addition to funding provided to the Local Authorities under our Capital Programme, additional funding was provided under a ‘Storm Damage’ Programme. The ‘Storm Damage’ Programme was an exceptional, once off measure as part of the Government's overall response to the impact of the Winter Storms last year on the public pier harbour and slipway network linked to fisheries and aquaculture.

The table details the total funding allocations approved and the total expenditure by this Department in relation to all Local Authority funding for 2014.