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Waterways Ireland asset disposals
I was interested in Waterways Ireland’s programme for disposal of assets. I wrote asking for: a list and details of the assets disposed of since 1 January 2010, including the amounts realised. I said...
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Northsouthery 121212
The North/South Ministerial Council reports here [PDF] on the most recent inland waterways meeting, which was held on 121212. Not much happened (or at least not much that is being revealed to the...
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FF -v- SF on C18 economic development
More from the splendid KildareStreet.com, this time an actual Dáil debate, with real people speaking, on 30 May 2013. The debate was initiated by Micheál Martin [head honcho in FF, Cork South Central],...
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O say can you see …
… any sign of the next North South Ministerial Council inland waterways meeting? I’m interested because (apart from exciting news about the Clones Sheugh) it might announce the appointment of the new...
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Dawn Livingstone …
… is to be the new CEO of Waterways Ireland: Ministers appointed Dawn Livingstone to the post of Chief Executive of Waterways Ireland for a seven year contract, with effect from 29 July 2013 or the...
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News from the NSMC
The communiqué from the North South Ministerial Council inland waterways meeting held on 19 June 2013 is here. This is my selection of the interesting bits. The NSMC got reports on WI’s additional...
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WI budget
In 2014 the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht [.pdf: go to page 51] is to cut its current expenditure on North–South Co-operation by €2.1 million: Savings, in excess of the agreed 3% per...
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Northsouthery and sheughery
The North South Ministerial Council secretariat has been remarkably quick to publish the joint communiqué from today’s plenary meeting. They must have adopted the Quaker practice of agreeing the...
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Modern management
I’ve just read the minutes (they call ‘em joint communiqués, to be posh) of all the North South Ministerial Council Inland Waterways meetings since northsouthery got going again in 2007. After a bit of...
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Waterways budgets: cut by one third in six years
I wrote here and here about the RoI budgetary allocations to Waterways Ireland for 2014, here about the difficulty of establishing exactly what WI’s budget is and here about some questions I have put...
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Waterways Ireland’s pensions burden
Let us suppose that you are an Irish civil service department, whose staff are employed on standard Irish civil service terms. And let us suppose that your Secretary General’s 65th birthday was on 31...
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War over waterways: Sinn Féin -v- the Free State
I reported here that, in June 2013,the North South Ministerial Council (in inland waterways format) approved, on the same day, Waterways Ireland’s business plan and budget for 2012 as well as its...
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NSMC explained
I reported here on April’s meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council (inland waterways flavour). I wasn’t there, though, and Carál Ní Chuilín was. Here is her account of the meeting, as explained...
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The delays in approving WI business plans
I wrote on 26 November 2013, and again on that date, on 22 January 2014 and on 7 April 2014 about the extraordinary delays in having Waterways Ireland’s business plans approved by The Powers That Be. I...
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Uninformative press release aboot thon sheugh
Plans to restore the Upper Lough Erne to Clones section of the Ulster Canal are being pursued by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht it...
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Saunderson’s Sheugh and northsouthery update
I’m trying to catch up on things I was too busy to cover late last year. Saunderson’s Sheugh 1 For new readers: the proposed rebuilding of the Ulster Canal started off in the 1990s with the idea of...
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From the [UK] Civil Service Quarterly
An interesting article [h/t celr] about the setting up of the Canal & River Trust, which runs (it says itself) 2000 miles of waterway in England and Wales. The article is not, perhaps, to be seen...
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Ulster Canal restoration: a history
Studies 1994–2000 Socio-economic summary report and feasibility study 2006 North/South Ministerial Council agreement 2007, with the Irish government to pay the full cost DCAL business case to DAHG 2015...
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Minister talks through her hat
I originally had a rather more rude heading …. The Minister for Waterways and Other Stuff has decided to have the River Finn dredged to aid her reelection campaign shut up the Shinners promote peace...
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Sort it yourself, Heather
No, that’s not me saying it: that’s the message from Enda Kenny to Heather Humphreys about Saunderson’s Sheugh. Recall that Ms Humphreys’s Northern Ireland counterpart has been pressing her to do...
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