Sarah O'Reilly (Aontú)

No. That is okay. I was shocked, I supposed, to hear the witnesses talk about the lack of services on piers such as, for instance, water and electricity. That is a basic thing that we should all strive to address as soon as possible.

They are correct about the local authorities. Local authorities are overburdened all the time with lots of initiatives and few administrative staff to deal with making applications. Applications can be lengthy and time consuming. Even if this committee could help to get one administrative person - who would be used to doing those kind of applications - designated to coastal communities to have these kind of small services onto their piers, that would be a small thing that we could do.