Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Committee on Public Petitions

Consideration of Public Petitions on Unauthorised Developments

Mr. Michael Barrett:

It got LEADER funding in 2013. The first warning letter was in 2012 and the first enforcement letter was in January 2013. On 26 July 2013, it got LEADER funding. I am showing its application for LEADER funding. Question No. 2 on the application asked what the funding was for, the reply to which was the expansion of existing activities. This means that, while the company was the subject of an enforcement order and being investigated by Waterways Ireland for developing on the latter's land, it got State funding to run an unauthorised development and expand its unauthorised activities.