Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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985. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36192/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Dingle Fishery Harbour Centre is one of the six designated Fishery Harbour Centres which are owned, managed and maintained by my Department under Statute.

In October 2017, under the Department’s Fishery Harbour Centre Capital Development Works Programme, and following a public tendering exercise, LandM Keating Ltd were awarded the contract to undertake capital dredging works at Dingle FHC to dredge the main navigation channel in Dingle FHC and to create a new vessel turning area at the main pier.

Over the course of the works, the contractor constructed a temporary access road along the foreshore. Arrangements made between the contractor and the individual concerned were a private matter between the contractor and the individual. My Department was not party to, nor aware of the details of any such agreement.