Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Waterways Ireland: Discussion.
3:00 pm
Mr. Éanna Rowe:
As I mentioned, we have an asset management programme. We have built a lot of processes and procedures behind that. Part of that includes the tracking of the maintenance aspect, which is currently being delivered through our operations teams. We have our cyclical maintenance which happens at regular intervals and includes weed cutting, grass cutting, hedge cutting, etc. We then have the reactive type of maintenance which the Cathaoirleach has described. That gets fed into the operational teams. Each navigation has a number of operational teams and the work is proportioned based on what comes out of the assessment management programme from a maintenance perspective and what comes through as part of reactive or cyclical maintenance. There is a lot of maintenance being dealt with by the teams on each of the navigations. That is the internal system. We hope, over time, as part of our asset management programme, to be able to deliver inputs and outputs insofar as receiving inputs from our customers, that is, those using the waterways, and be able to provide the same kind of outputs that one can expect that facility to be fixed by etc. However, we are not there yet.