Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 October 2017
169. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will complete the works on the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal, to ensure safe access to the harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42034/17]
Amharc ar fhreagra172. Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will complete the works on the breakwater at Greencastle Harbour, County Donegal, to ensure safe access to the harbour. [42053/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 169 and 172 together.
Greencastle Harbour is owned by Donegal County Council and responsibility for its development and ongoing maintenance rests with that Local Authority in the first instance and its parent Department, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government thereafter.
My Department does however provide limited funding to assist coastal Local Authorities in carrying out small-scale projects for the development and repair of Local Authority owned piers, harbours and slipways under the annual Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Development Programme, subject to available Exchequer funding and overall national priorities.
Donegal County Council has successfully secured the maximum funding allocation allowable of €112,500 under the 2017 Programme for development works at Greencastle Harbour.
Any applications submitted by Donegal County Council in relation to Greencastle Harbour in the future will be given due consideration within the terms and conditions of the Programme.
