The Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Development Project is a comprehensive integrated multi-annual project designed to address a range of navigational, safety and infrastructure deficits which existed in Castletownbere.
The investment in the total integrated project includes the removal of an old unsafe pier on Dinish Island and replacement of this with a new and extended pier on Dinish Island, however, expenditure on this specific element cannot be easily separated out from the other linked elements of the overall project.
The investment in the project to date includes:
Substantial dredging of the approach channel to the harbour.
Substantial dredging of a deep water berthing basin at the site of the new pier development.
Dredging of the inner bay and around the town pier.
Infilling of the foreshore near the town pier to facilitate a new RNLI station.
Disposal and export of a very substantial quantity of contaminated dredge spoil.
The removal of the "perch rock" which was a significant obstruction in the approach channel.
The construction of a 210 metre pier on Dinish Island.
The expenditure that my Department has incurred on the integrated Development project at Castletownbere Fishery Harbour Centre since 2006 is set out in a table:
2006
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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€10,241,265
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€7,396,981
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€6,933,805
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€7,441,470
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€404,672 (to date)
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