Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Rowe for his opening statement. A couple of questions arise. Let us go back to the very large commercial developments that happened over the years. I accept many of them have been there for the best part of a generation in some cases. Mr. Rowe said 30 years and more. My limited knowledge of the civil law around this is that it is about whether a development is there without any challenge for 30 years. Were there no situations where either Waterways Ireland or its predecessors challenged any of these? Were legal letters never sent to people asking what is happening with a huge development built on the foreshore of a lake or river? Was it just completely ignored over that time?