Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for Rush Harbour works and improvements in County Dublin, given the desperate need for repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46150/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Responsibility for development, and repair and maintenance of Rush Harbour rests with Fingal County Council. The parent Department for that Local Authority is the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

My Department has in previous years, under the annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme, provided funding to Local Authorities for the development and repair of local authority owned piers and slipways, subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.

Any application submitted under the Programme by Fingal County Council in respect of Rush Harbour, in future years, will be considered in the context of the criteria set out, available funding and overall priorities.