Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland

9:30 am

Mr. Éanna Rowe:

It will take a number of years to develop. There is no doubt about that. We must get through the design and planning phase first, which will probably take a full year, considering the design and the environmental implications. Again, we are in an SAC so the bar is higher. I hope we will get through that process fairly smoothly and then we can begin to go through the phased development of it. A lot of the assets from Limerick to O'Brien's Bridge in particular are already in our ownership. We will look at the phased introduction of that greenway.