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Piers and harbours around the country are getting a facelift with €23m funding

More than 115 piers, harbours and slipways damaged during the recent storms are getting funding for repair work.

MORE THAN 115 piers, harbours and slipways damaged during the recent storms are to get funding of €8.5 million for repair work.

The package of funding of €23 million was announced by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney today.

Local Authorities

Funding of €7 million has been allocated to 111 projects to repair Local Authority owned storm damaged harbours, piers and slipways, as is €1.5 million for remediation work at four Department owned, non-Fishery Harbour Centres including €1.3 million for North Harbour Cape Clear.

However, the largest bulk of the funding – €14.63 million is being provided for harbour development in 2014, which Coveney says is a significant increase on the level of funding provided in 2013.

More than €11.63 million of this is allocated towards safety, maintenance and new development works at six Fishery Harbour Centres at Howth, Dunmore East, Castletownbere, Dingle, Ros a Mhíl and Killybegs, in addition to infrastructural improvement works at “bull nose” pier, North Harbour, Cape Clear.

These works also includes €4 million for dredging works at Dunmore East.

Over €3 million is going towards Local Authority Harbour Development and Marine Leisure programmes.

Minister Coveney said today:

We are all too well aware of the damage wreaked on our harbour network during the winter storms.

I am delighted to announce as part of an extended capital programme for 2014, this significant funding for the immediate repair of piers and harbours across the country.

In terms of the funding going towards Fishery Harbour Centres Coveney said the funding is an indication of the Government’s commitment to developing our fishery harbours for the benefit of the fishing industry, seafood processing sector, other ancillary marine industries, tenants and the wider community.

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    Mute Michael
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    Mar 20th 2014, 5:09 PM

    Local election time!

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    Mute Darren Norris
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    Mar 20th 2014, 5:29 PM

    I love their spin… it shows commitment to the fishing industry etc, it is essential repairs, not investment.

    It needs to be done

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    Mute Richard Rodgers
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    Mar 20th 2014, 6:27 PM

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    Wild you prefer the work not to be done and the public to be left in the dark about it ! What a deep thinker!

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    Mute Richard Rodgers
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    Mar 20th 2014, 6:27 PM

    Would

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    Mute Darren Norris
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    Mar 20th 2014, 7:07 PM

    Id prefer them to just do the work, it is essential repairs, not a chance to pretend to care about the fishing industry, seafood processing sector, other ancillary marine industries, tenants and the wider community….and so on

    If the defenses in some case were put in years ago they would not be in the same situation.

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    Mar 20th 2014, 5:25 PM

    Terrible news. How will people now be able to complain about the €3 million in Aid to the Philippines from the article this morning.

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    Mute Ciaran Morgan
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    Mar 20th 2014, 7:00 PM

    election slush fund, all borrowed. fine gael are fianna fail.

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    Mar 20th 2014, 9:21 PM

    I hate to agree with you Ciaran but I think you are right.Lahinch is the photo in the caption and today I see co. council workers wasting public money erecting a wall that the next tide will take away. The Co Council have been allocated public money and they are doing a cosmetic job with in time for the elections,they need professional people to advise them to deal with this global warming I.e possibly the Dutch , up to now we have been lucky, the Councils have spent very little on defences in this country especially places like Lahinch. I believe Clare Co. Council have stopped Doonbeg from putting down defences to protect their golf course,I would love to hold the civil servant responsible who made this decision. Donald Trump will be here next week and I. Would advise him to place the boulders that are stacked there to put them in place to protect his property and let Clare Co Council take him to court

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    Mute Declan Byrne
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    Mar 20th 2014, 7:31 PM

    That 23 million won’t do much a drop in the pond in comparison to what is needed

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    Mute Pauric McKenna
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    Mar 20th 2014, 5:22 PM

    Piers Morgan is due a facelift too, and while their at it should remove his voicebox.

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    Mute Mindfulirish
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    Mar 20th 2014, 8:10 PM

    They must protect their friends yachts. Dunlaoghaire harbour is full of private yachts with big masts. It looks worse than the Pylons but the council just took the amenity from everybody and gave it to the rich. They even built a separate harbour for them. It should belong to the public not just a select few. It is also an ugly looking sight compared to the beautiful open blue water that these bloody yachts replaced. Another of our national assets sold off to vested interests.

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