Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 231: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); if there is a general policy on the matter; if there are other areas on the waterways that facilitate such facilities; if so, the areas and the person who determines rules and regulations in regard to such areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36030/09]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Waterways Ireland is responsible for the matter raised by the Deputy and I understand that it has responded to the correspondence concerned. I am informed by Waterways Ireland that it is at present finalising a draft policy that will determine the future manner of regulation and management in relation to this issue and that Shannon Harbour is under consideration as a pilot location in this context.

With regard to the location referred to particularly in the correspondence supplied by the Deputy, I am advised that boat access to that location for mooring purposes is suspended at present, due to a number of ongoing and planned major infrastructural improvements, including structural repairs and the extension of a surface water outfall pipeline through the area by the local authority. I am further advised that further progress in regard to the issue raised by the Deputy will not be possible until the works in question have been completed and the appropriate planning approvals received.