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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Has that number increased?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: By how much?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Turning back to the issue of unauthorised developments on the Shannon, will the agency supply the committee with a note regarding the size and type? I do not expect to see the exact size of all of them, but I would like to see the types of developments we are talking about. The witnesses might describe what they consider to be a large-scale development, for the benefit of the public and us...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: The small ones are more or less temporary marina platforms.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: A floating platform. I am trying to understand this as a layperson.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Of the 70 we are talking about, what are we talking about there? What does Mr. Rowe see as fitting into that category?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Could that just be a platform marina?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: They might have built a structure on the bank as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: That is rather serious, is it not, if they built a permanent structure into the waterway without authorisation from the agency or the local authority? That would be a serious matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Will the witnesses send a note to the committee on that, outlining the number and scale?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I do not want the exact size of every one of them. I am just trying to be practical about it. It is just for our information. When local authorities serve unauthorised development notices on them, that is a really serious matter. I have dealt with a few of them over the years where there may have been a complaint from a neighbour and it might be something very small. It might be a vacant...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Does the agency have a special unit, with perhaps two, three or four people, focusing on this?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: How many people are in it?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Okay. The witnesses might come back to me on the other points.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: On the tents issue, and I apologise for going back to this again but it is a bit of an issue, the witnesses stated that €40,000 had been spent on hiring fencing and there is a weekly cost in that regard. What was the other €85,000 spent on?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Was that after the tents had been removed?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: I understand the health risk here. It is an emergency situation.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is not simple to deal with and, unfortunately, some people in the tents are fleeing God knows what, which we can only imagine.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: Fencing, however, is very unsatisfactory.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)

Brian Stanley: It is a bit like proposing to fence the Curragh. How far can we go down the canal with fencing? There is the weekly cost of it, apart from the obstruction and everything else. The Ulster Canal is an important project. In July 2022, there was a €20 million contract for phase 2. How much has been spent on it to date?