Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the application of Wexford County Council to co-fund coastal protection works at Rosslare Warren Middle, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11960/17]

Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works that an application for funding under the Office of Public Works' (OPW) Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme has been received from Wexford County Council for a project at the location in question. Further information has been requested from the Council in order to consider the application.

Furthermore, officials from the OPW met with officials from Wexford County Council on Tuesday 7th February to discuss how to progress issues arising at Rosslare Strand. In particular, the scope of the coastal erosion risk management study of Rosslare Strand commissioned by the Council, which formed part of the application under the Minor Works Scheme, was discussed. It was agreed that further work was required to ensure that the study and its conclusions reflected a full and balanced assessment, including cost benefit analysis, of the range of potential options for managing the risk of erosion across Rosslare Strand as a whole including environmental impacts and which would provide a sound basis for the Council to prioritise any required actions in this regard.