Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Before we finish up, I thank everyone for coming in. Obviously they have to go back and deliberate. However, if they could make contact with the committee and advise how long they are giving for the extension to the consultation period, that would be very good. We will discuss this in our meeting next week. I was going to recommend at that meeting that we ask the Minister to pause the by-laws but in light of what has been said today and the extension on the consultation period, I am happy with that and for the various groups to come back in. As we have two distinct by-laws here, we need a session on the River Shannon and a distinct session on the canals. Arising from that, I hope we can make our own agreed submissions to both of those consultations. That would be a meaningful resolution to this from our point of view.