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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am pressing amendment No. 3.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will press it in such a way that I can take it to Report Stage, but I will not go beyond that.

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. 4:In page 4, line 35, after “canals” to insert the following: “, within agreed procedures on a temporary basis due to an emergency or to facilitate a planned event or maintain an upgrade”.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will not press it now but will re-table an amendment on Report Stage.

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. 6:In page 5, to delete lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: “(e) the issue of permits including annual permits, for the mooring and passage by boats and licences for houseboats, to authorise and regulate the use of boats on the canals or other canal property;”. A new licensing agreement is coming in and it is quite a legal document. The purpose of...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not catch what the Minister said. When will I have to have a licence, and when will I have to have a permit?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thought that was what we were talking about.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister accepts that the licence is an 11-page document.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The world has become very legalistic. What is considered a long-term or short-term mooring?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is saying this is for long-term moorings. What constitutes long-term moorings?

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The legal boys got at this one.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: The world is becoming tied up with so much red tape; it is sad. The Minister has not answered the question as to what is considered to be long and short term.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Earlier the Minister mentioned "up to a year."

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I will reflect on my amendment.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am pressing it.

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. 7:In page 5, line 26, to delete “use by boats” and substitute “users”. This amendment relates to "the charging and fixing of fees, tolls and charges in respect of use by boats of the canals" and also the taking of water from canals. The amendment seeks to replace the words "use by boats" with "users" because people who do not have boats could...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Paragraph (p) does not refer to towpaths but to canals.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: No, because one cannot cycle or walk on a canal. I have only ever heard of one person who could walk on water.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: It only applies if they do the things prescribed. At the beginning of the section the word "may" is used rather than "must". There is nothing driving Waterways Ireland to do this. On the issue of taking water from canals, for example, boats would not take that much water, but others might and Waterways Ireland might want to license and charge them for doing so, which seems reasonable. Why...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: At the beginning of the section it is stated "Waterways Ireland may ... make bye-laws". It does not state it "must" make them. If it was to become common practice for people to extract water from the canals for one reason or another, perhaps to irrigate fields, for example, would it not be as reasonable to charge them for doing so, as it is to charge boat owners? Actually, according to the...