Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland
9:30 am
Mr. John McDonagh:
I will make three comments on the Deputy's question. We accept that we need to have more resources in Dublin in respect of the work that needs to be done to bring the standard of the canals and assets to a standard more comparable to other international cities. That is accepted. We need to resource up for that. Regarding the outer basin at the Grand Canal Dock, there is a water quality issue. There are no immersive activities there, or there should not be, because of the water quality issue. The water quality issue is being dealt with in conjunction with Uisce Éireann and Dublin City Council. There is a project that now has planning that will deal with that water quality issue in the next couple of years.