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Thursday, 19 November 2020

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Departmental Properties

Photo of Pádraig Mac LochlainnPádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and location of each building or property owned by the marine section of his Department nationwide; the income in rent received for each of the buildings or properties in each of the years, 2000 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the amount invested in each building and property in the same period in tabular form. [37422/20]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres (FHCs), located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl under statute.  My Department became responsible for the Fishery Harbour Centres in October 2007.  Please note that Dingle was designated as a Fishery Harbour Centre in May 2007.

The FHCs contain a diverse property portfolio reflecting their role as working fishery harbours and as the location for a broad range of other marine activities.  The total number of properties (excluding infrastructure) across the six FHCs was 249 as at 3 February 2020. These properties are profiled in summary by FHC location in Table 1 which is attached.

My Department prepares annual Fishery Harbour Centre Accounts on an Income & Expenditure and Receipts & Payments basis which are laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.  Table 2 attached gives the overall rental receipts for each of the FHCs for the years 2000 to 2005 and 2008 to 2019  from the FHC Accounts as requested.  For the years 2006 and 2007, separate figures for rental receipts were not published in the Accounts and therefore the rental income figure has been provided.  In relation to 2020, the table shows the rental monies received as at 31 October 2020. 

Due to the commercially sensitive and/or personal nature of the information, it is not possible to provide rental receipt data on an individual customer basis.

Investment in third party leased FHC properties is made as required by the respective tenants occupying those properties.  As set out in the covenants of each lease, it is the responsibility of tenants to maintain, amend and keep property and buildings in a good state of repair and condition, and to keep the leasehold area free from defects for the duration of the lease agreement.  In the main, Departmental expenditure across the other properties is provided from my Department’s FHC Safety and Maintenance budget on an ongoing basis and is not readily available in the detail requested.

Table 1: Number of Properties in the Six State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres

Description Number of Properties in the Six State-Owned Fishery Harbour Centres
Castletownbere FHC Dingle FHC Dunmore East FHC Howth FHC Killybegs FHC Ros an Mhíl FHC Total
Leased/Licensed 30 8 30 58 25 14 165
Potentially available for tender/disposal 1 1 2 1 1 6
Vacant Properties Unavailable / unsuitable for tender 2 4 3 2 11
Department Use 18 7 10 11 10 7 63
Sale in Progress* 4 4
Total Properties 48 16 43 75 43 24 249

*These relate to boundary rectification issues involving small plots of ground which historically formed part of the gardens of privately owned houses outside of the FHC and which are of no operational value to the FHC.

Table 2: Rental Receipts / Income for Properties in the 6 Fishery Harbour Centres 2000 to 2020 (inclusive) as per audited Fishery Harbour Centre Financial Statements

Year Killybegs Castletown'bere Ros an Mhíl Howth Dunmore East An Daingean Total Rental Receipts
2000 22,714 43,610 26,019 109,060 11,233 - 212,636
2001 73,735 44,551 23,971 109,453 37,316 - 289,026
2002 27,657 133,880 12,055 305,672 27,703 - 506,967
2003 21,051 115,853 42,763 231,751 50,155 - 461,573
2004 41,434 64,322 27,086 283,171 39,909 - 455,922
2005 77,857 91,380 (21,296) 464,020 60,484 - 672,445
2006 * 238,093 183,039 29,826 717,006 81,145 - 1,249,109
2007 * 326,928 107,290 124,763 259,286 59,103 13,800 ** 891,170
2008 81,312 15,050 38 56,642 7,352 34,892 195,286
2009 371,513 274,355 39,825 536,090 52,135 1,260 1,275,178
2010 225,709 243,527 37,800 473,542 81,077 37,696 1,099,351
2011 229,437 230,160 71,172 425,209 53,286 47,771 1,057,035
2012 268,349 270,660 134,600 549,840 59,550 25,835 1,308,834
2013 192,528 205,984 16,350 445,963 78,326 32,850 972,001
2014 183,989 169,128 87,950 438,719 54,508 27,000 961294
2015 188,783 141,716 27,100 525,644 47,864 40,350 971,457
2016 192,950 138,924 21,550 413,917 69,406 36,631 873,378
2017 181,470 267,203 39,975 501,916 55,620 37,000 1,083,184
2018 129,196 196,712 19,775 624,543 119,384 37,000 1,126,610
2019 *** 137,000 192,000 56,000 581,000 59,000 44,000 1,069,000
2020 (up to 31st October 2020) **** 131,470 188,259 13,718 393,794 48,908 26,136 802,285

* Income figure provided as the Receipts and Payments account had a composite figure for Harbour Dues & Rents

** Accounts for Part year as An Daingean was designated a Fishery Harbour Centre on 14th May 2007

*** Unaudited accounts

**** Extract from accounting system (unaudited)

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