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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is that figure in addition to the 150 you-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I warned the witnesses that a quotation from Patrick Kavanagh was probably incoming: Commemorate me thus beautifully Where by a lock niagarously roars Is Paddy Kavanagh's bench behind a fence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes. Was the cost of this fencing met from Waterways Ireland's own resources?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: And from nowhere else?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: There is talk of the use of hostile architecture, such as spikes. When we put together the canal recreation, activation and animation plan, I hope that hostile architecture, such as spikes, is not part of that plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is the canal recreation, activation and animation plan consistent? The witnesses gave their response to the climate action plan, but there is now also the national biodiversity action plan, which is on a statutory footing. Will those two plans go hand in hand? Whatever about the climate aspect of the canals - and that aspect is not inconsiderable - the biodiversity aspect of is far richer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a couple of more specific questions but I will come back in later.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I refer to the Block 19 graving docks. I think Waterways Ireland was considering selling it at one point for a housing development or some such thing. What is the status?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Many of my questions will be, "What is the timeline for that?" What is the timeline for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Very close.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I refer to the by-laws process. A lot hangs on this by-laws process. That is probably the more important piece rather than the mooring charges, even though it is a fairly substantial increase. The by-laws are more important and probably a trickier piece of work. I will ask the same question. When do we think that process will lay an egg?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Again, we are quite close.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It is great that it is close to being finalised because it is so important for whatever the future holds for the canals to have that tidied up. Speaking of tidying up, I refer to spending on the cleaning of the Dublin canals, the Grand Canal Basin in particular. The Grand Canal Basin should be fantastic. It is quite beautiful. The plaza is gorgeous and all the rest of it. If the water...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is what I was asking about regarding the ambition. Is the ambition people being able to swim in Grand Canal Basin?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I hope that whatever the next Government looks like, Waterways Ireland gets the support for that. It should be fantastic. I lived in Ringsend for a number of years and used to come across those locks. It should be fantastic. On tourism, did Waterways Ireland make a submission to the Department of tourism's consultation on sustainable tourism? It was relatively recent - only the last...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I think the consultation process has closed now. I would have thought it was a fantastic opportunity, especially because it is sustainable tourism. It is an outstanding sustainable tourism offer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: It would have been a good opportunity to have made a submission to that consultation because I do not think Waterways Ireland would have had to recreate the wheel because it has much of the work done. I think it would have made for a powerful submission. I ask about the Barrow tourism master plan and particularly a part of the world I am extremely fond of, which is Graiguenamanagh to St....
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Could I restate the question a little bit baldly? Where is Mr. McDonagh's thinking at in terms of the retention of the towpath as it is or hard surfacing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: From Graiguenamanagh to St. Mullin's in particular.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am not quite getting an answer.