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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.

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

Brian Stanley: On the tents issue, and I apologise for going back to this again but it is a bit of an issue, the witnesses stated that €40,000 had been spent on hiring fencing and there is a weekly cost in that regard. What was the other €85,000 spent on?

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

Brian Stanley: Was that after the tents had been removed?

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

Brian Stanley: I understand the health risk here. It is an emergency situation.

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

Brian Stanley: It is not simple to deal with and, unfortunately, some people in the tents are fleeing God knows what, which we can only imagine.

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

Brian Stanley: Fencing, however, is very unsatisfactory.

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

Brian Stanley: It is a bit like proposing to fence the Curragh. How far can we go down the canal with fencing? There is the weekly cost of it, apart from the obstruction and everything else. The Ulster Canal is an important project. In July 2022, there was a €20 million contract for phase 2. How much has been spent on it to date?

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

Brian Stanley: I refer to the overall project. I know there are three phases to it.

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

Brian Stanley: How much has been spent on the three phases?

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

Brian Stanley: About €25 million, therefore, has been spent.

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

Brian Stanley: Phase 3, then, is the big piece-----

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

Brian Stanley: -----and that is the piece linking Clones to the Shannon via Lough Erne and the Shannon-Erne waterway system. What is the estimated cost?

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

Brian Stanley: In regard to the contribution of funding from the North and the South, what kinds of discussions are happening about that? Will this State carry the whole cost? I am not going to get into it because I am anti-partition, but the benefits of this will be North and South. Everybody will benefit from this when it is done. What kinds of discussions, if any, are happening about the shared cost?

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

Brian Stanley: A lot will depend on what happens today on the other side of the pond.

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

Brian Stanley: I know that Mr. McDonagh cannot do so, but I can. It will affect whether there will be a bit more cash knocking around because there is a very difficult budgetary situation and, unfortunately, the Assembly and the Executive do not have the same powers as the Dáil to raise money. Is there a timeline for the delivery of that project? I would like to use it. I have never been on a...

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

Brian Stanley: Has planning permission for the third phase been approved?

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

Brian Stanley: Completion will be in 2028 or 2029. The estimated cost is €104 million. There is planning permission in the North because the Ministers grant it there, or sign off on it. It is a different planning system.