Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the body responsible for the upkeep, repair and maintenance of the slipway in Foynes, County Limerick (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20107/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Pursuant to the Fishery Harbour Centres Act 1968 (as amended), this Department is responsible for the management, control and operation of the six Fishery Harbour Centres located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros an Mhíl. In addition, my Department also has responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of North Harbour at Cape Clear, as well as the maintenance of a small number of piers, lights and beacons throughout Ireland, in accordance with the 1902 ex-congested Districts Board piers, lights and Beacons Act.

Responsibility for the maintenance and development of Local Authority-owned harbours and piers rests with each individual Local Authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government thereafter.

The slipway referred to in Foynes does not come under the remit of my Department and is registered to a private individual, responsibility for its maintenance and upkeep would appear therefore to rest with the owner or their estate.

That said, it is my understanding the local Council has undertaken to clean the slipway of dangerous material.