Written answers

Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Harbours and Piers Maintenance

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will complete the works on the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal to ensure safe access to the harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42034/17]

Photo of Martin FerrisMartin Ferris (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will complete the works on the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal to ensure safe access to the harbour. [42053/17]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 169 and 172 together.

Greencastle Harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its development and ongoing maintenance rests with that Local Authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government thereafter.

My Department does however 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.  

Donegal County Council has successfully secured the maximum funding allocation allowable of €112,500 under the 2017 Programme for development works at Greencastle Harbour.

Any applications submitted by Donegal County Council in relation to Greencastle Harbour in the future will be given due consideration within the terms and conditions of the Programme.

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