Dún Laoghaire Harbour accounts
Deputy Boyd Barrett said the Government and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council were breaching legal duties by failing to publish audited accounts for Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. The Tánaiste said he would ask the Minister to come back to the Deputy.
I believe that for the past six months, the Government, specifically the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, have been in breach of their legal obligation to produce audited accounts for the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and to lay those accounts before this House. The transfer of Dún Laoghaire harbour into the ownership of the county council under the Harbours Act 2015 happened exactly one year ago to the day. Six months after that transfer, there is a legal requirement for those accounts to be published, given to the Minister and laid before this House. Some six months to the day since that was required, it still has not happened. The Government and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are in breach of a law the Government wrote. I want this urgently looked into because this carry-on has gone on for far too long in Dún Laoghaire Harbour.
