Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland
9:30 am
Mr. Éanna Rowe:
Because we have started the process, as Mr. McDonagh has explained, in relation to the identification of the actual encroachments on the Shannon. We have looked at them across three tiers: those encroachments that are over 30 years, those encroachments between 30 and seven years, and those encroachments between seven and zero years. We have had no new encroachments in the past three years on the Shannon Navigation. We have resourced a unit internally and the process of regularising the encroachments on the Shannon will take a considerable amount of time.