Written answers

Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

EU Funding

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital works projects within his Department that received EU funding in each of the years of 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and the amount of EU funding received per capital works project in tabular form. [22961/22]

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The table below shows funding received under the transport element EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). CEF Transport is the EU's funding instrument for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Funding under the CEF is delivered in the form of grants allocated following competitive calls for proposals. 

Details of all of Ireland’s successful projects are available at the following weblink:

ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility/cef-transport/projects-by-country/ireland

Project 2020 2021 2022
City Centre Re-Signalling Project (CCRP) €936,743.54 0 0
DART+ South West Engineering Design €2,209,287.50 0 0
Port of Cork Ringaskiddy Project €803,789 €3,369,703 0
Shannon Foynes Port Capacity Extension Works €379,273 €102,976 €1,347,592

The Department also received reimbursed funds from the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) for the following Interreg projects: Carlingford Lough Greenway, Ulster Canal Greenway (Phase 2), North West Greenways Network and North West region - Multimodal Transport Hub. The division and allocation of this fund is the responsibility of the SEUPB.

Details of EU funding received for these projects in the years 2020 to 2022 is as follows:

Year Amount Received
2020 €3,579,332.82
2021 €682,727.52
2022 €81,901.09

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