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Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We need to be prepared. We meet all sorts of witnesses but very little comes out of it. Today's meeting has given results.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Yes. We will get that far.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 1:In page 4, line 18, after “aforesaid.” to insert “These designations should be made without unnecessarily impeding navigation.”. I tabled my amendment to reinforce the fact that the primary purpose of waterways is for navigation. I acknowledge they are used for many other purposes and that Waterways Ireland has some dry canals in its...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The proposed new section 5(1)(b) reads: "Waterways Ireland may designate particular parts of the canals and other canal property for particular purposes including purposes incidental to such purposes as aforesaid." It would appear to me that temporary closing for the kind of activity the Minister mentioned is not the designation of a particular part of the canal for a purpose because the...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister outline why my amendment is impractical? All my amendment seeks is to do is insert the phrase: "unnecessarily impeding navigation.”

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am a bit disappointed with the explanation.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: No.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can the Minister explain that again?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister has no problem with the word "reasonable".

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Who decides what is reasonable?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Obviously that would be necessary. On the one hand, the Minister has mentioned the word "reasonable". The obvious response that always arises in a Bill is who decides what is reasonable and, ultimately, it is the court. On the other hand, in reference to the word "unnecessary" I included in my amendment, the Minister asked who would decide what was unnecessary. My response to her is it...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will press my amendment.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, line 34, after "canals" to insert the following:", subject to existing maximum dimensional criteria that enable our canal heritage vessels to continue to use the system they were designed for". The Bill provides that "Waterways Ireland may in accordance with this section make bye-laws for the care, management, maintenance and control and the regulation of...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Amendment No. 5 proposes to insert the words "within agreed parameters on a temporary basis due to an emergency". Amendments Nos. 4 and 5 seem to be the same for some reason. They must have been included twice by mistake. My apologies. We can discount amendment No. 5. I will not press it.

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister made a brilliant case for amendment No. 3. She referred to the by-law as it stood. It could be changed because under this law, it could be made more restrictive than it is. What the Minister is saying is-----

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: May I continue?

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: What I am saying is the Minister has said there is no intention to do so and perhaps that is the situation, but she also said we would not have to change the by-law because it already allowed for heritage boats. We seek to insert this amendment to protect against anybody who would change the by-law to make it more restrictive. We are seeking to guard against something a lot of us have seen...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: If the Minister thinks amendment No. 4 would be too restrictive, she might let me know between now and Report Stage how she thinks it would be too restrictive and what I would have to add to it to make it less restrictive in order that it would cover the acceptable eventualities and stop the closure of canals. As I said, I have seen things happen that everyone said could not happen. On...

Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (25 Apr 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will think about amendment No. 4 and we can come back on it on Report Stage. In terms of what I am proposing in amendment No. 3, and I believe it is reasonable, the Minister has a by-law with which there is no difficulty. We all know that, given that the make-up of Governments change and so on, it is very difficult to get statutory instruments stopped if one that is proposed is...