Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. John McDonagh:

The answer is yes. Affordability is a key factor in determining the outcome for fees. To give some context, at this stage there are probably at least five different sources of fee calculations. We had some work completed initially by KPMG. It set out some fees that it felt were appropriate. Subsequently, we had fees that went out to the first revision of the by-laws and then there was a second revision. We have also seen fee calculations by the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland. The association looked at all of this and conducted a review. We are currently looking again at the affordability aspect of the fees in respect of the revision of the by-laws.