Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We will forward it to the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

That concludes our consideration of public petitions this afternoon. I would like to invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal, which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. A petition may be addressed to the Houses of the Oireachtas on a matter of general public concern or interest or an issue of public policy. To return to what we said earlier for anybody looking in, one signature can get a petition in front of the committee. It is not the case that a person has to get 26,000 signatures. It may help to get it up the ladder a bit quicker. To be fair to the clerk and the secretariat, the amount of work they do in respect of all the petitions received must be recognised. No preference is given to any one petition over another.

The next matter on the agenda is any other business. We have a petition, P00023/21, on unauthorised developments, which is in the name of Michael Barrett. We are seeking agreement that the committee would write to all county councils to request details of the approval process for developments on waterways, including jetties and marinas. The committee would also like to request that the councils provide the committee with the number of both authorised and unauthorised developments that have been identified and where an unauthorised development is identified, that they would outline what processes are in place to respond to these developments. Does anybody have any views on that?