Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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850. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a recently retired staff member of Waterways Ireland who worked on loughs 9 to 15 of the Shannon Erne Waterway in the Ballinamore area of County Leitrim will be replaced on a full-time basis, as the person (details supplied) who has worked on loughs 5 to 8 for over 22 years is now covering a larger area, much of which the person has no deep understanding of; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5504/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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I have been informed by Waterways Ireland that it currently employs a team of three full-time Waterway Patrollers on this waterway which has sixteen navigation locks and six fully serviced public mooring sites. This mobile team provides instruction and assistance to waterway users on the lock, services operating systems and inspects and maintains facilities. I am advised that the vacancy created by the recent retirement of a staff member who provided operational cover for the Kilclare zone from Lough 9 to Lough 16 will be filled in 2016 by a new seasonal Waterway Patroller to be recruited for the summer boating season. Until such time as the new seasonal employee is in place, the three full-time Waterway Patrollers have been re-assigned to cover a larger area during the spring and autumn seasons, March–May and September-October.

I have been informed also by Waterways Ireland that during the high season, June–August, three seasonal Waterway Patrollers will be in place based at Lock 16, Kilclare and at Lock 1 and the three full-time Waterway Patrollers will revert to cover their normal areas.