Martin Ferris (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will provide funding to complete works at the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal. [14761/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Greencastle Harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its development, repair and maintenance rests with that Local Authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Planning 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.

The primary focus of the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Development Programme, which the Department administers on an annual basis, is to provide funding for capital works at the six Fishery Harbour Centres for which my Department has responsibility.

Any application submitted by Donegal County Council in respect of Greencastle Harbour under a future Local Authority capital programme will be given consideration in the context of the criteria set out, available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.