Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I do not want the exact size of every one of them. I am just trying to be practical about it. It is just for our information. When local authorities serve unauthorised development notices on them, that is a really serious matter. I have dealt with a few of them over the years where there may have been a complaint from a neighbour and it might be something very small. It might be a vacant house and work might have been carried out by somebody who is now deceased, for example, and people might feel as though their backs are to the wall. How many unauthorised development notices have been served by the local authorities? I am mindful that this is not Mr. Rowe's baby. It is for the local authorities and I am not trying to nail him down on this. Even so, there are ten county councils along the Shannon and, obviously, he is in contact with them. Does he have any idea of how many of these notices have been served in respect of the Shannon waterway?