David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1541. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figure for the annual capital spend on the development and upgrading of harbours for fisheries listed by harbour and year for each of the years 2008 to 2015; and the budget allocation for 2016 for capital spend on the development and upgrading of harbours for fisheries listed by harbour. [25179/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department annually administers the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Development Programme. This Programme funds capital works at the six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl. Table 1 below details the voted capital expenditure listed by harbour for the State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres for each of the years 2008 to 2015. The budget allocation for 2016 for capital spends on the development and upgrading of these six Fishery Harbour Centres is €11,179,000.

Table 1 – Fishery Harbour CentreVoted CapitalExpenditure, 2008 – 2015

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1542. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figure for the annual spend on storm repair of harbours for fisheries listed by harbour and year for each of the years 2008 to 2015; and the budget allocation for 2016 for storm repair of harbours for fisheries listed by harbour. [25180/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department owns, manages and maintains the six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl. It also has responsibility for North Harbour Cape Clear, and a limited number of piers, lights and beacons in accordance with the 1902 ex-congested Districts Board piers, lights and Beacons Act.

Under its annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme, my Department provides funding, subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities, to assist Local Authorities in the development and repair of piers, harbours and slipways under their control. Responsibility for the maintenance and development of the Local Authority piers and harbours rest with that local authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

As part of the Government’s response to the damage caused by the storms of 2013 and 2014, designated storm repair funding was made available to Local Authorities in 2014 and 2015, a detailed breakdown of which is included in Tables 1, 2 and 3 below. Prior to 2014, specific funding was not allocated for storm repair of harbours for fisheries. My Department has allocated over €1.3m to Local Authorities for storm repair works in 2016, details of which are included in Table 4 below.

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1543. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected annual capital spend on the development and upgrading of harbours for fisheries for each of the years 2017 to 2021. [25181/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department owns, manages and maintains the six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl. It also has responsibility for North Harbour Cape Clear, and a limited number of piers, lights and beacons in accordance with the 1902 ex-congested Districts Board piers, lights and Beacons Act.

All developments in the six Fishery Harbour Centres are considered under annual Capital Programmes on the basis of available Exchequer funding and competing priorities. Given the annual nature of funding allocation decisions no funding has been allocated for the development and upgrading of harbours for fisheries for 2017 to 2021 at this point.

Under its annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme, my Department provides funding, subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities, to assist Local Authorities in the development and repair of piers, harbours and slipways under their control. Responsibility for the maintenance and development of the Local Authority piers and harbours rest with that Local Authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected annual spend on storm repair of harbours for fisheries for each of the years 2017 to 2021. [25182/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department owns, manages and maintains the six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl. It also has responsibility for North Harbour Cape Clear, and a limited number of piers, lights and beacons in accordance with the 1902 ex-congested Districts Board piers, lights and Beacons Act.

Under its annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme, my Department provides funding, subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities, to assist Local Authorities in the development and repair of piers, harbours and slipways under their control. Responsibility for the repair, maintenance and development of the Local Authority piers and harbours rest with that local authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.

Given the annual nature of funding allocation decisions, no funding has been allocated to spend on storm repairs of harbours for fisheries for the years 2017 to 2021 at this point.