Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion

Mr. ?anna Rowe:

Absolutely not. Waterways Ireland is a public body undertaking a 108-day open and transparent public consultation process and we are nearing the end of it. We have had seven public information evenings and will have another one this evening in Mullingar. We have run webinars for more than 1,300 elected members, from councillors to Senators and Deputies. We have nothing to hide. We have been very open in what we are trying to do and, as I said, we are trying to bring alignment between two sets of individual by-laws.