A €17.8m Capital Investment Package for the ongoing development of Ireland’s publicly owned fishery harbours and local harbour network has been announced.
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, said, “I am delighted to announce the full details of my Departments’ €17.8m Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Programme for 2015. I have set aside €14.9m towards safety, maintenance and new development works at the six Fishery Harbour Centres at Howth, Dunmore East, Castletownbere, Dingle, Rossaveel and Killybegs, in addition to the completion of infrastructural improvement and storm damage repair works at North Harbour, Cape Clear which is also owned by my Department.”
Flagship projects in the 2015 Capital Programme (see table1) include major dredging works at Dunmore East, the provision of small craft harbours and pontoons in Howth, Rossaveal and Killybegs, electrical upgrading in Castletownbere, and necessary remedial works to the main pier in Dingle. In addition, the Bull Nose Development and the Duffy’s Pier storm damage repair projects at North Harbour Cape Clear are to be completed.
The Minister has also allocated €1.5m for a Local Authority Harbour Development and Marine Leisure programme in 2015, and as an “exceptional measure” he is also providing in the region of €1.4m to facilitate the completion of a number of Local Authority Storm Damage projects which were approved in 2014.
A full table of the programme can be found here.
