Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 December 2015
273. Deputy John Deasy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the dredging operation in Dunmore East in County Waterford will be completed; and the status of the synchro lift at the harbour. [46154/15]
View answerDunmore East Fishery Harbour Centre is one of the six designated Fishery Harbour Centres which are owned, managed and maintained by my Department under Statute.
The Deputy will be aware that I allocated €6.5m for the purposes of dredging work at Dunmore East Fishery Harbour Centre under my Department's 2015 Fishery Harbour Capital Development Programme. This was the flagship project for this years programme and I am happy to inform the Deputy that the project is coming in within budget and will be substantially complete by the end of December. The demobilisation of the plant however, will not be complete until early 2016 as this is subject to weather conditions.
As part of the dredging project, the area under the syncrolift was also dredged, however maintenance works will have to be carried out on the syncrolift before it can be made operational. It is expected that these works will be complete and the syncrolift operational during the first quarter of 2016.
