Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Committee on Public Petitions

Fermoy Weir: Discussion

Mr. Paul Kavanagh:

No, €50,000. The estimate we have for the boom is £35,000 sterling but there could be one in another part of the country that could be used for nothing. There is a cloak of silence over all of this and the engineers and officials from Cork County Council are hiding behind the fact that the IFI will not accept a repair on its own. We must break that deadlock. If they want to build a fish pass afterwards and if the Oireachtas wants to pay for it, well and good. I have no problem with that. I will live with a new fish pass; it will be beautiful.