Mr. Michael Barrett:

In my opinion, everything has been ignored. Several developments, two of which I mentioned, have been built on property owned by Waterways Ireland without permission from that body. They have been built without any planning permission whatsoever or any regard for environmental laws. Basically, they have been built without any regard for anything. When it was brought to the attention of the local statutory bodies, in this case Westmeath County Council, Waterways Ireland and the Department of the Environment, they seemed to be very slow and very hesitant to do anything about it. In fact, to a certain extent, they seemed to encourage it.