Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. ?anna Rowe:

On the ability to pay, I would certainly welcome proposals on how we could undertake this. We do not want to go down the route of looking for means testing and so on. We are not in the role of the Department of Social Protection, I would suggest. We believe the mechanism we have applied is fair and reasonable. We got independent research to set a level. We reduced that level and we further reduced it in phase 1 of the consultation. As I said earlier, we will take on board any and all submissions we received from the houseboat communities on what they think is fair and equitable for serviced and unserviced sites. Going down a means test-----

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