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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will let Deputy Murphy back in at a later stage. I wish to return to the issue of staffing. How many whole-time-equivalent staff does Waterways Ireland have?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: The figure has risen by 56 since 2021.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: In 2021, the figure was 306. Is that not correct? There were 125 in administration and 181 in operations, totalling 306. It has increased by 56.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: In which area have they been targeted? In terms of spend and value, in a general way, in which areas were those people deployed to work? Are they administration staff or management?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: What about engineers and other technical staff? What about maintenance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: What about maintenance itself? There are some operatives.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Has that number increased?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: By how much?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Turning back to the issue of unauthorised developments on the Shannon, will the agency supply the committee with a note regarding the size and type? I do not expect to see the exact size of all of them, but I would like to see the types of developments we are talking about. The witnesses might describe what they consider to be a large-scale development, for the benefit of the public and us...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: The small ones are more or less temporary marina platforms.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: A floating platform. I am trying to understand this as a layperson.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Of the 70 we are talking about, what are we talking about there? What does Mr. Rowe see as fitting into that category?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Could that just be a platform marina?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: They might have built a structure on the bank as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is rather serious, is it not, if they built a permanent structure into the waterway without authorisation from the agency or the local authority? That would be a serious matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will the witnesses send a note to the committee on that, outlining the number and scale?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: I do not want the exact size of every one of them. I am just trying to be practical about it. It is just for our information. When local authorities serve unauthorised development notices on them, that is a really serious matter. I have dealt with a few of them over the years where there may have been a complaint from a neighbour and it might be something very small. It might be a vacant...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does the agency have a special unit, with perhaps two, three or four people, focusing on this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many people are in it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Waterways Ireland (4 Jul 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. The witnesses might come back to me on the other points.