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

Brian Stanley: Would this be the security option?

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

Brian Stanley: Has this been started?

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

Brian Stanley: I will revert to the issue of expenditure and income. The spend in 2022 was €61 million, having risen from €50 million in 2021, and income was €1.35 million for that year. To be realistic, it is not a body that is going to bring in a large amount of income because of the nature of what it is looking after, which is canals and other waterways. The information on people...

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

Brian Stanley: The specific question I am asking concerns physical structures on the Shannon waterway. Is a permanent income received from those or is it proposed there would be?

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

Brian Stanley: How much is that per year?

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

Brian Stanley: One of Mr. McDonagh's predecessors admitted there were a number of unauthorised developments on the Shannon. Is that correct?

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

Brian Stanley: How many?

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

Brian Stanley: Some of them would be very small.

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

Brian Stanley: How many are medium to large?

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-----