Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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This has been going on for a long time. I remember one time when we discussed it I said I would write to my own council. I have put the question to it and I mentioned authorised and unauthorised developments on its section of Waterways Ireland waterways. In fairness to Cork County Council, it came back very fast in response to authorised developments but there was supposed to be another section for unauthorised developments and, unfortunately, I have not received a response. I even checked this week again. It is a matter of concern. Cork people do not just talk to people in Cork; we talk to people all over the country. The figures I am getting suggest that there could be anywhere up to 400 unauthorised developments affecting Waterways Ireland entities. We are looking at this matter for two years and we are getting zero responses back. I do not think that is very fair to us as a committee. I agree with you, Chair, that we need to get the responses here because this is public money. It is an all-Ireland body and we are getting no responses.