Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for funding for a pier (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19748/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Bunavalla Pier, Caherdaniel, is owned by Kerry County Council and responsibility for its maintenance and development rests with that Local Authority in the first instance, and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government thereafter.

However my Department does provide limited funding to assist coastal Local Authorities in carrying out small scale projects 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. I have allocated over €2.5m for this year's Programme.

On 3rd February, initial applications under the Programme were invited from all coastal Local Authorities. Our records indicate that my Department did not receive a funding application under this Programme for Bunavalla Pier. Should a future application be submitted by Kerry County Council in relation to this pier, it will be given due consideration.