Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. Éanna Rowe:

This is connected to our ambition to update our by-laws. The two issues are connected. Currently, we have a draft investment programme for houseboats on our canals. It is in draft form, and it looks at increasing the provision of service houseboat moorings to cater for more than 170 houseboats. It will take us between five and seven years to develop that because houseboat moorings are subject to planning permission. The larger phase of this, which Mr. McDonagh mentioned, is to identify lands that may be available to develop off-cut marinas that could cater for sizeable numbers of houseboats. We have a plan in draft to invest in houseboat serviced moorings. That could deal with the exact question the Deputy posed.