Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the board for Waterways Ireland will be fully reinstated. [3034/22]

Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party)
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Waterways Ireland is a North-South Body under the British-Irish Agreement Act, 1999, and as such was established without a Board. The functions of the Agency are exercised by a Chief Executive, under the direction of the North South Ministerial Council.

In 2021, the North South Ministerial Council agreed that officials from the sponsor departments, in consultation with the Joint Secretariat of the NSMC would explore options for the establishment of a Board to oversee the work of Waterways Ireland.

Consideration of this matter is ongoing with a view to bringing proposals to a future meeting of the Council.