Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 December 2015
244. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will provide the funding to complete the breakwater at Greencastle in County Donegal; and if he will support the plans to develop Greencastle Harbour as recently presented to his ministerial colleague and Department officials. [42311/15]
View answerGreencastle Harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its development, repair and maintenance rests with that Local Authority in the first instance and its’ parent Department, the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government.
My Department however provides funding for the development and repair of Local Authority owned piers, harbours and slipways under the annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.
Under the 2015 Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme I am happy to confirm to the Deputy that funding of €93,750 has been approved for Greencastle Harbour under this Programme.
The primary focus of the Fishery Harbour & Coastal Infrastructure Capital Development Programme which the Department administers on an annual basis, is to provide funding for capital works at the six Fishery Harbour Centres for which my Department has responsibility for.
The suite of projects for inclusion in the 2016 programme including consideration of the amount that can be made available for a Local Authority element of that programme are being considered, and I will make an announcement on these issues in due course.
