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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Steven Matthews: That covers the Deputy's question about the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, SCSI, and the terms of reference.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is great. I thank our guests for their attendance today. It has been helpful. One thing that became apparent during this session and in previous engagements is that homeowners still have many questions. As a committee, we are probably going to invite those question from those groups, write to the Department and try to get a response. In respect to the reporting and further...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Defective Block Scheme Regulations and Review of IS 465: Discussion (13 Jul 2023)

Steven Matthews: That would be helpful. I thank our guests for their attendance. I also thank the secretariat for all the work it has done for our committee, which is one of the busiest. We could not do it without the help of Ms Anne-Marie Lynch, Mr. Tommy Byrne, Ms Orlaith Connolly and Ms Sue Hyland. I thank them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: I welcome everyone to the meeting. Deputy Flaherty wished to raise a matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: Is that agreed? Agreed. I welcome from Waterways Ireland, Mr. Éanna Rowe, operations controller, and Mr. Patrick Harkin, head of the inspectorate; from the Irish Residential Boat Owners Association, Mr. Liam Finnegan and Mr. Jerry Gleeson; and from the Royal Canal Amenity Group, Mr. Derek Whelan, director, and Mr. Niall Galway, secretary. I thank them for their attendance. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: I am going to cut speakers' time to six minutes each

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: I apologise Deputy Flaherty. The Sinn Féin slot is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: The Senator will need to get a written response to that. I call Deputy Cian O'Callaghan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: My apologies to Mr. Gleeson. I have to keep cutting his contributions but I have to be strict because I will not get contributions from everybody otherwise. I call Senator Cummins to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: The next slot is Sinn Féin's. We are not going to have time for everybody. If people want to cut it down to two or three minutes I might be able to get everyone in but for six minutes, as agreed, with the numbers present, I will not be able to fit everybody in. Do members agree to cut the time down?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: We will try to further engage anyway so we will address those. Deputy Gould has the last slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: Do people want to take a minute to round up on it? We already have agreement. I apologise. An hour is a very short period of time. I am sorry that I had to cut people off to get everyone in. We have agreement that this is to be extended and there will be further engagement with the committee and our guests. There is the KPMG report for Senator Fitzpatrick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: I am happy to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay. We will follow up on that. It was sent to the committee with the correspondence. We responded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: We will check. If we can find it great, if we cannot, we will come back to the witnesses. I will offer Mr. Finnegan or Mr. Gleeson the opportunity take a minute to wrap up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Finnegan and call on Mr. Whelan to wrap up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: Likewise, for groups, if they have any questions please send them to us. In our engagement with the Minister we can seek a response, or with Waterways Ireland in response to that. I call Mr. Rowe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Mr. Rowe. When he establishes how long the extension will be, will he send us that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canals and River Barrow Navigation By-laws: Discussion (21 Sep 2023)

Steven Matthews: Public representatives can then advise people that another X number of days or months are left, whatever is considered appropriate. We will certainly do that through our own channels. Again, I am sorry for cutting this so short.