To: Minister Malcolm Noonan
Save Grand Canal Dock Liveaboard Community
This campaign has ended.
Don't sign the proposed canal bye laws and destroy communities.
Why is this important?
The Grand Canal Dock residential houseboat community faces a raise in mooring fees of 2000% and is at immediate risk of displacement by Waterways Ireland.
Single people, families, young people and pensioners make up this vibrant houseboat community which has been part of Grand Canal Dock, Pearse Street and Ringsend for over a decade. The increase in fees outlined in Waterways Ireland’s proposed bye-laws is unjustified, unaffordable and puts all households at immediate risk of displacement.
We are asking you, as Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform, not to sign off on the proposed canal bye-laws on the 26th February.
The raise in fees for this liveaboard community can only be seen as the gentrification of Grand Canal Dock Marina. Waterways Ireland is a state body and service provider funded by the taxpayer. Their actions are comparable to a private developer not a custodian of the Irish Waterways.
The heritage and cultural legacy of the waterways lives on in the boating community. This raise in fees in Grand Canal Dock will set a precedence for unreasonable and unjustified fees for boaters across the country and will empty our rivers and canals, destroying this legacy and ultimately displacing communities.
Minister Noonan, we are calling on you to reject this revision of the bye-laws until the rights of boating communities are protected, families are not displaced and a fair fees structure is in place.
Yours sincerely,
Single people, families, young people and pensioners make up this vibrant houseboat community which has been part of Grand Canal Dock, Pearse Street and Ringsend for over a decade. The increase in fees outlined in Waterways Ireland’s proposed bye-laws is unjustified, unaffordable and puts all households at immediate risk of displacement.
We are asking you, as Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform, not to sign off on the proposed canal bye-laws on the 26th February.
The raise in fees for this liveaboard community can only be seen as the gentrification of Grand Canal Dock Marina. Waterways Ireland is a state body and service provider funded by the taxpayer. Their actions are comparable to a private developer not a custodian of the Irish Waterways.
The heritage and cultural legacy of the waterways lives on in the boating community. This raise in fees in Grand Canal Dock will set a precedence for unreasonable and unjustified fees for boaters across the country and will empty our rivers and canals, destroying this legacy and ultimately displacing communities.
Minister Noonan, we are calling on you to reject this revision of the bye-laws until the rights of boating communities are protected, families are not displaced and a fair fees structure is in place.
Yours sincerely,
