asked the Minister for the Environment if he has made an application to the EEC for funds for the Cork Land Use and Transportation Study or for parts of it and, if so, the portions applied for and the total of the moneys involved for 1980 to 1984 inclusive.
Written Answers. - Cork Land Use and Transportation Study.
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No EEC funds have been sought or granted in respect of the cost of the study itself. However, in so far as those areas of work coming under my Department are concerned, EEC funds have been approved and some already paid, in respect of the implementation of projects identified in the plan arising from the study. A list of these projects will, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, be circulated with the Official Report.
List of Projects for which EEC aid has been sought.
In this list the following abbreviations have been used
ERDF = European Regional Development Fund
EIB = European Investment Bank
Sanitary Services Projects
|
Scheme |
Estimated Cost |
Present Status of EEC aid request |
|
1. Cork City and Harbour Water Supply, (including contracts 4 and 5 identified in phase 1 of Study). |
over £30m. |
(a) approved for ERDF grant assistance—(b) EIB loan of £20 million approved and fully drawn. |
|
2. Carrigaline Sewerage |
£2.275m. |
(a) approved for ERDF grant.(b) approved in principle for EIB loan. |
|
3. Ballincollig Sewerage Scheme (Stages I to III). |
£1.663m. |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980) for Stages II and III.(b) Approved in principle for EIB loan. |
|
4. Midleton Sewerage. |
£2.695m. |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980).(b) EIB loan approved in principle. |
|
5. Riverstown Glanmire Water Supply. |
£1.5m. |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980).(b) EIB loan approved in principle. |
|
6. Cork City Improvements (at Lee Road, Waterworks, main from Blarney Road to Sunday's Well and Rising Main to Churchfield Reservoir). |
£383.000 |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980).(b) EIB loan approved in principle. |
|
7. Cork City (8 projects, including Inchigagain Sewerage and Camden Quay Sewerage). |
£797,000 |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980).(b) EIB loan approved in principle. |
Road Projects
|
Scheme |
Estimated Cost |
Present Status of EEC aid request |
|
1. Ringaskiddy Road |
£850,000 |
(b) EIB loan approved. |
|
2. Route N.8 Dunkettle—Public Lighting. |
£40,000 |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980). |
|
3. Route N. 20, Mallow/Cork Road. |
£3,980m. |
(b) EIB loan approved. |
|
4. Route N. 71, Bandon Road from Viaduct, and Barna-Innishannon. |
£1.840m. |
(a) approved for ERDF grant.(b) EIB loan approved. |
|
5. Railway Bridges (Brian Boru and Clontarf). |
£350,000 |
(a) ERDF grant sought (March 1980). |
|
6. Quay Walls. |
£1.220m. |
(b) EIB loan approved. |
|
Total estimated cost of schemes for which EEC aid has been requested |
£47,593.000 |
Notes:
1. In general it is not possible to identify the amounts of European Regional Development Fund grants or European Investment Bank loans in respect of individual schemes as these funds are normally sought and approved in respect of groups of infrastructural schemes.
2. An EIB loan of £31 million has been approved, in principle, and £10 million of this has been drawn to date, for a group of Sanitary Services Schemes in the South West Region (Cork-Kerry) including six of the schemes identified in the Cork Land Use and Transportation Plan. A separate EIB loan of £20 million was approved for the Cork City and Harbour Water Supply Scheme because of its exceptional size. This EIB loan has been fully drawn.
3. A loan of £33 million from the EIB was approved in July 1979 to help finance the initial phase of a programme of improvement works on over 20 roads on the National route network and major roads in or adjacent to Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Dundalk to be carried out at an estimated cost of £66.9 million in the period 1979-1983. An additional loan of £13 million representing 20 per cent of the cost of the programme was advanced and paid in September 1979 under the Ortoli Facility.
The following four projects which were recommended in the Cork Land Use and Transportation Plan were included as part of the overall application—Ringaskiddy Road. N.20 Mallow/Cork, N.71 Cork/Bandon. Quay Walls.