Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 24 March 2021
283. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Transport the amount of funding transferred to each local authority in respect of the transfer of local harbours under the Harbours Act 2015 except funding for due diligence; the date and amount of each transfer since 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14294/21]
View answerNo State funding has been transferred to the local authorities in relation to the port transfers.
Following the transfers of the five Ports of Regional Significance to local authority control, where a port company transferred under the transfer of shareholding model, the company continues, as before, to fund all activities from its own resources. In the case of a port company that was dissolved and transferred directly under a local authority, it continues to generate income from port activities under the local authority.
The date and amount of each transfer is set out below.
|
Port Company Name |
Local Authority |
Date of Transfer |
Funding transferred to Local Authority |
|
Wicklow Port Company |
Wicklow County Council |
30th August 2016 |
Nil |
|
Drogheda Port Company |
Louth County Council |
2nd October 2017 |
Nil |
|
Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company |
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council |
3rd October 2018 |
Nil |
|
New Ross Port Company |
Wexford County Council |
1st August 2019 |
Nil |
|
Galway Harbour Company |
Galway City Council |
1st January 2021 |
Nil |
On an exceptional basis and due to potential environmental contamination, Exchequer funding of €93,328.54 was paid to Wexford County Council in 2020 in respect of the environmental clean-up of previously identified sites at New Ross.
