Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to put a lot of work on the Department but we need to understand the scale of the problem. I am talking about what happened when the Department went to the inspector for an informal oral hearing and at the end of the hearing, it was clear to the inspector that the Department was still not happy with the proposal despite all of the iterations. I am not interested in hearing whether at some stage the Department raised an issue that was addressed, even going into the hearing or during the hearing. I am interested in learning what happened because when the inspector went home after the hearing was over, he knew the NPWS was unhappy. That is just by way of clarification because I do not like putting unnecessary work on Departments.

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