Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on funding that is required at Scraggane Pier, Maherees, Brandon, Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36948/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Scraggane Pier is owned by Kerry County Council and responsibility for the maintenance and development of the pier rests with that local authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

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.

My Department received an application for works at Scraggane Pier from Kerry County Council under the 2015 Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme. The works include stabilisation works and underpinning of the pier.

I am happy to confirm to the Deputy that funding of €22,500 has been approved for Scraggane pier under this Programme.