Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Committee on Public Petitions

Business of Joint Committee

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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That is one element of it. Is that agreed? Agreed.

I will move on to the next petition. The next petition for consideration is Petition No. P00036/18 from Mr. Paul Kavanagh. The petition concerns the Fermoy weir on the River Blackwater in County Cork. I propose that we correspond with Cork County Council to ask for an update on the status of this issue and that we would forward a copy of the reply from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment to the petitioner and inform him that this petition remains open. I also propose that we invite the petitioner and possibly one other stakeholder to come before us in this committee for a short interaction in respect of discussing the issues that are at play concerning the River Blackwater in Fermoy. Is that agreed?