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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: So there are 101 unauthorised developments.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Those are large-scale.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I would not advocate Waterways Ireland going after the small guy. From what Mr. McDonagh is saying, there are about 70 that are large-scale.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Has Waterways Ireland a proposal to collect fees? Does it collect fees from the authorised ones?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Then there are the unauthorised ones. For clarity, there are 70 unauthorised large-scale developments on the Shannon, what Mr. McDonagh called "encroachments". Because they are unauthorised, no fee is collected from them under a permit system.
- 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: Hold on a second. You do not need to come back to me. This is a straight question. If the authorised one is paying an annual fee and an unauthorised one a mile up the river is not paying a fee-----
- 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?