Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I would strongly urge the latter option for Dún Laoghaoire. That is the point I am making. I have heard about these two options for quite some time. The harbour company, with its executive and board, needs to be dissolved. There are enormous savings to be made in executive salaries and expenses, some of which were falsely claimed and never repaid, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of euro that have been wasted on crazy master plans that never came to fruition, that nobody ever asked for and that would have been completely inappropriate. Money has been wasted in all sorts of ways, which I do not have time to enumerate now. The company is leeching money out of the harbour. It has run the harbour into the ground, as evidenced by the loss of the Stena Lines ferry service. Now we have another crazy plan, hatched by a so-called "stakeholder group" to mortgage the assets of Dún Laoghaoire harbour to the tune of €18 million to build a giant cruise berth for luxury cruise liners. A planning permission application has been submitted but there is no business plan. The People Before Profit Councillor Melisa Halpin asked to see the business plan but there is none.

I can show it to the Minister some time. This is the crazy stuff that is going on. There are no minutes taken by the members of the little cabal that are hatching this plan. We have asked if there are minutes of any of their meetings. They go off on junkets to the United States. There are no minutes.

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