Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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671. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for piers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47675/18]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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In conjunction with relevant local authorities, my Department is open to co-funding appropriate capital works to improve access to our offshore islands.  The eligibility criteria for this funding are as follows:

- the island must be permanently inhabited; 

- the island be cut off from the mainland daily by the tide;

- the island must not be connected to the mainland by bridge; and,

- the island must not be in private ownership. 

I understand that the island referred to does not satisfy all of the above criteria and, accordingly, would not qualify for funding from my Department.