Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be allocated to a project (details supplied). [18931/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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While the funding of the maintenance and repair of weirs is not a matter that falls within the remit of this Department, and it has no specific funding line for such projects, it is appreciated that this is a very important project for Cork County Council and the community of Fermoy, in particular.

In view of the strategic importance of this project from an economic, social and environmental perspective, a strictly once off exceptional payment of €175,000 to Cork County Council was sanctioned by the previous  Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government from the Local Government Fund on the 17 September 2019.  However, the approved allocation has yet to be drawn down by Cork County Council. My Department remains committed to this level of support in 2020.