Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister has given me a date for later this year but in the context of 20 years, I am still a little sceptical so I will be coming back repeatedly for the rest of the year. Has the Minister any clarification on the foreshore licence? I think there was a need for a foreshore licence. Where is that at? At the risk of boring the Minister, all I can keep repeating is that there is an urgent need for an islands policy. What is missing is an islands policy based on legislation. I should not have to be here with other colleagues tormenting whatever Minister is here to push for the most basic requirements so that people can live sustainably on islands. They have enough difficulties without a lack of basic infrastructure. The overtopping on the harbour is a matter of health and safety and it has been like that for a very long time.

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