Written answers
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Trans European Transport Network Programme
Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the moneys Ireland has drawn down from the Trans-European Transport Network, TEN-T, programme in the past ten years; if he will provide a list of the projects and amounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7389/15]
Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if infrastructural projects have been submitted for Trans-European Transport Network, TEN-T, funding in the Border, midland and western region; the projects and moneys allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7390/15]
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 228 and 229 together.
The table below summarises projects from Ireland, or with Irish involvement,which were successful in obtaining co-funding under TEN-T in the last 10 years as published by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) . The projects with Irish involvement as part of a wider consortium are denoted by an asterisk. The associated funding listed for these projects reflects the total drawdown by the consortium, and not just the drawdown by the Irish member of the consortium.
While some of the projects listed are location specific, most have wider national transport application and are not specific to any particular Region.
Applications under the current Call for proposals under the Connecting European Facility, the funding mechanism for TEN-T, have to be submitted by 26 February 2015. My Department is currently assessing a number of applications under this Call before their submission to INEA by the applicants. Details of successful applications under this Call are not expected until later in 2015.
| NAME | Description | YEAR | EU co-funding Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTC- Central Traffic Control | Strategy study and detailed design | 2013 | €1,241,000 |
| Dublin Port Alexandra Basin Redevelopment | Creating Capacity and Removing a Bottleneck on an Inter-Modal Transfer point on priority project 26 | 2013 | €2,464,000 |
| The Arc Atlantique Traffic Management Corridor | Link economic nodes of Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow, Cardiff, London, Calais, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Lille, Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, San Sebastian, Bilbao Valladolid, Santander, A Coruna, Porto, and Lisbon | 2013 | €22,294,000* |
| The European ITS Platform + (EIP) | The EIP+ project brings together Member States authorities, road operators and relevant decision makers to monitor the Easy Way deployment guidelines, evaluate the impact of ITS projects on a pan-European scale, as well as disseminate best practice. | 2013 | €1,881,929* |
| Airport-Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) deployment and integration into the network | Specifically, the project aims to deploy Airport Collaborative Decision Making in eight airports (Berlin Schönefeld, Copenhagen, Dublin, Hamburg, Lisbon, Lyon, Manchester and Stuttgart) and to integrate most of these local A-CDM processes to the Network Manager System by the end of 2015 as targeted by the Interim Deployment Plan. | 2013 | €3,229,796* |
| Speeding up and facilitating SESAR deployment through convergence between COOPANS and DSNA/4Flight ATM systems | This project brings together French air navigation service provider and several members of COOPANS alliance (service providers in Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden) to set up a solid foundation for the convergence of their respective ATM systems towards a common technical platform by 2025. | 2012 | €791,265* |
| Port of Cork Company's Strategic Development Plan | Studies to secure building permits and to prepare design and tender documentation to facilitate the implementation of the priority projects in Corks Port's Strategic Development Plan | 2012 | €1,842,000 |
| City Centre Re-signalling Project - Connolly Station to Sandymount Station - Design Stage | The Action is part of the Global Project DART (underground programme) which aims to deliver a new underground railway link through Dublin City, along Priority Project 9 and Priority Project 26. It concerns the design studies and planning permission approval for the renewal of the rail signalling system within the Greater Dublin Area: the City Centre Re-signalling Project (CCRP). | 2012 | €724,000 |
| European ITS Platform (EIP) | Within the framework of a Global Project fostering the development of ITS integrated services along transport corridors, the European ITS Platform (EIP) of road authorities and operators aim at enhancing the deployment of harmonised ITS services and the coordinated management of road transport in Europe. | 2012 | €1,350,000* |
| Accelerating the deployment of advanced FDP capabilities in Europe | The Action falls within the global project of the Single European Sky (SES) and its R&D programme SESAR (SES ATM Research) looking for significant improvements in the performance of Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Europe through the implementation of advanced and cross-borders interoperable Flight Data Processing (FDP) systems | 2012 | €6,655,000* |
| Accelerating the introduction of Electric Vehicle Rapid Charging by studying adoption and use along PP axes 13 and 26 in the UK and Ireland | The overall objective of the Action is to support decarbonisation of road transport in Europe via the rapid deployment of Electric Vehicles (EV) across Member States | 2012 | €3,679,000* |
| International Green Electric Highways - Study to assess fast charging infrastructure to enable deployment of electric vehicles in Ireland and Northern Ireland | The Action will significantly contribute to demonstrate that the electrification of road transport is a viable proposition and will develop an understanding of all charging infrastructure and technology requirements. | 2011 | €2,119,000 |
| UK-Ireland FAB Development of High Level Sectors | The National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA), Air National Service Providers in the UK and Ireland respectively, propose to carry out an extensive study to design and validate the establishment of High Level Sectors (HLS) covering the IAA/NATS Functional Airspace Block across the UK and Ireland Flight Information Region (FIR)s. These HLS's will allow for over-flights to be provided with direct routing and are aimed at ensuring that sectorisation is optimised against traffic flows, thus balancing controller workload and improving safety. | 2010 | €1,154,378* |
| EasyWay, Phase 2 | EasyWay is a complex project for Europe-wide ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems/Services) deployment on the main Trans-European Road Network corridors. A first phase of the project has been funded in 2007 up until 2009. | 2009 | €100,000,000* |
| Airport Datalink Equipment | The Global Project concerns Air Traffic Management (ATM) and aims at the provision of air-ground datalink services throughout Europe. With datalink, aircraft and ground air traffic control systems will communicate more efficiently in order to increase safety and efficiency in the ATM Network. Air-ground datalink services are key enablers identified in the Single European Sky Airspace Research (SESAR) Master Plan for European ATM improvements. | 2009 | €7,002,276* |
| Green and predictable flights - North European Air Navigation Service Providers | The project is implemented by the North European ANS Providers (NEAP). It consists of several activities related to the improvement of Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems in the region. The action is aiming at the reduction of environmental impact from aviation as well as to increase the predictability during various phases of flight by modernising ATM infrastructure, including ground-ground networks (TCP-IP connectivity), Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures and airborne systems and stepwise upgrade of current ATM systems to integrate various enablers such as Datalink, Arrival Management (AMAN), ADS-B etc. | 2009 | €9,108,000* |
| NETLIPSE | The main objective of the NETLIPSE project is to improve the management, organisation and execution of "Large Infrastructure Projects" (LIPs), and in particular TEN-T projects. | 2008 | €580,000* |
| Dublin Interconnector Tunnel study - design and railway order phase | Part of Priority Project 26 (Railway/road axis Ireland/United Kingdom/continental Europe), this global project will enable trains to run between the Dublin-Belfast and the Dublin-Cork rail lines. It addresses the missing link currently on the Cork-Dublin-Belfast railway line | 2007 | €10,000,000 |
| EASYWAY | EasyWay is a complex project for Europe-wide ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems/Services) deployment on the main Trans-European Road Network corridors. | 2007 | €98,000,000* |
| SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) | The objective of SESAR is to develop the new generation European Air Traffic Management system, in line with the Single European Sky (SES) legislation. | 2007 | €350,000,000* (of which €200,000,000 through this Action) |
| Trans-European Satellite Navigation System (Galileo): Development and validation phase | The project aims to complete the Development and Validation phase of the Galileo system by validating space, ground and end-user segments through extensive in-orbit and ground tests. | 2007 | €190,000,000* |
| ERTMS development and consolidation | European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), composed of a unique European Train Control System (ETCS) and radio system GSM-R, is designed to gradually replace the existing incompatible national systems throughout Europe. | 2006 | €2,500,000* |
*Projects in which an Irish organisation took part as part of a European consortium.
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