Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 October 2020
596. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital funding allocated and spent and the projects that have been delivered at the harbours under the remit of his Department in each of the years 2000 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30196/20]
View answerMy Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl under statute. In addition, my Department also has responsibility for the upkeep and maintenance of North Harbour at Cape Clear, as well as the maintenance of a small number of specific piers, lights and beacons throughout Ireland, in accordance with the Marine Works (Ireland) Act 1902, and piers, lights and beacons constructed under the auspices of the Congested Districts Board.
Funding is made available on an annual basis by my Department to the Fishery Harbour Centres, via the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme. Since 2007, when my Department took over responsibility for the Fishery Harbour Centres, over €168 million has been invested in this Department-owned infrastructure.
Table 1 (contained in the link below) outlines the total expenditure by my Department in relation to this Department-owned infrastructure in the years 2007 to 2020. The figures for 2020 are the allocated funding figures, not actual expenditure figures.
Table 1. 2007 - 2020 FHC, Cape Clear, PLB
My officials are currently reviewing records for the period 2000-2006, which pre-dates the transfer of the fisheries function to my Department, and I will revert to you in due course with details of funding allocated during this period.
