Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland
9:30 am
Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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Is the canal recreation, activation and animation plan consistent? The witnesses gave their response to the climate action plan, but there is now also the national biodiversity action plan, which is on a statutory footing. Will those two plans go hand in hand? Whatever about the climate aspect of the canals - and that aspect is not inconsiderable - the biodiversity aspect of is far richer and far more valuable. Does Waterways Ireland have a plan in place to respond to the national biodiversity action plan?