Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty is that everything is being kicked down the road while we await the CFRAM programme report. The joint committee's report was framed in the context of the CFRAM programme. There are far more extensive things that could be done while we await the CFRAM programme study. There are eight practical measures that could be put in place and that will have to be put in place. Do we not need to have a single agency with authority for the River Shannon and the management of its waters? We have seen the implications, whereby matters on which decisions are required fall between stools.

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