Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Canal By-laws and Naomh Éanna: Discussion (Resumed)

3:35 pm

Ms Dawn Livingstone:

As Mr. Lawn and I have tried to outline, the current by-laws provide commissioners the ability to grant any form of extended stay and we are not averse to dispute resolution. We are not in the business of being car park attendants whereby we will give a ticket to someone who stays five minutes too long; it is not that type of business. However, there is a need to deal with people who persistently do not try to work in the better of interest of all the users.