The first major step towards developing a new multi-million euro port in south Connemara has been taken with five Government departments coming together to move the plan forward.

The move will see the relocation of Galway port to Connemara and allow the development of the city harbour for recreational craft.

Galway port will next year become the first ever Irish stop-over in the Volvo Ocean Yacht Race, an event which will bring 140,000 people to the West and an estimated financial windfall of €43 million.

Galway West TD Frank Fahey (FF), who is promoting the development of the new port at Rossaveal, said it would be part of a huge infrastructural redevelopment of that part of the West.

"What is needed now to make this happen is some joined-up thinking between all the parties involved," he said.

The assistant secretaries of the five departments, Transport, Agriculture and Fisheries, Environment, Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and Finance, held their first meeting on the issue before the weekend.

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