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
John Cummins (Fine Gael)
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I believe there is a commitment - correct me if I am wrong - that there will be additional services. It would be helpful to the committee, and certainly with regard to the consultation which is ongoing, if an actual figure was put on that - a figure which Mr. Gleeson feels is reasonable. There is always a figure to be arrived at. Someone will have a view that it should be X and someone else will have a view that it should be Y. Generally, there is probably a figure which would be somewhere in the middle, which is the right figure. It might be helpful for the entire process if they bottomed that out as a group and organisation. I am not dictating that to Mr. Gleeson's organisation but I am just suggesting it.