€17.8m capital investment for Ireland’s coastal infrastructure

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, has announced a €17.8m Capital Investment Package for ongoing development of Ireland’s publicly-owned fishery harbours and local harbour network.

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Works at Dunmore East include breakwater design, traffic management plan, dredging and upgrading the harbour office. Photo Gillian Mills

“€14.9m will go 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 completion of infrastructural improvement and storm damage repair works at North Harbour, Cape Clear. I have also allocated €1.5m for a Local Authority Harbour Development and Marine Leisure Programme in 2015.”

A further €1.4m will go towards completing Local Authority storm damage projects approved in 2014 “as part of the Government’s response to the extreme weather conditions in late 2013 and early 2014, but not completed..,” he added. 

This is a “significant level of investment…and will continue the implementation of the Government’s strategy to develop and improve the facilities at our Fishery Harbour Centres and other public harbours around our coast, benefitting a broad cohort of stakeholders including the fishing industry, seafood processing sector, other ancillary marine industries, marine tourism and leisure and the wider rural coastal communities,” he concluded.

Capital Programme

  • major dredging works at Dunmore East
  • 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
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