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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am trying to deal with the logic here. They are not authorised by Waterways Ireland. Would they normally require planning permission from the local authority for that type of structure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. There are a number of local authorities involved, including one in my constituency, namely, Offaly County Council, at least until this mandate runs out. How much work has Waterways Ireland done with local authorities on these unauthorised hard structures and developments, 70 of which are on a large scale?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Have you done any?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: With respect, that would not be a hard job. If you sail down the Shannon, you could count them as you go down, or drive along either bank in a vehicle with a notebook and camera-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: ----- and a mobile phone.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is understandable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know all of that and am very aware of the date it was set up under the Good Friday Agreement. Where I am coming from, I would hope there would be more North-South bodies. I know there are many legalities around changing ownership and title deeds under the umbrella of Waterways Ireland. That said, 27 years later, here we are and Mr. McDonagh is telling me there are 70 unauthorised...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are 70 on the Shannon - large-scale.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: How much progress has been made with this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Are you referring, with the smaller ones, to the Statute of Limitations with planning-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. The large-scale ones are what I and many communities along the Shannon are concerned about. We have not got off the blocks with it yet. Waterways Ireland is researching it. There is more urgency about it than that. Has Waterways Ireland contacted or liaised with any local authority along the Shannon on unauthorised developments? I see unauthorised developments coming before...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Have unauthorised development notices been served on any of them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: But some have been.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Has Waterways Ireland tried to take any legal action against any of the unauthorised large-scale developments?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: You have looked to regularise it but have you taken any legal action?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Why?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Rowe feel there needs to be a sense of urgency about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Do you intend issuing licences or permits to these unauthorised developments?