Minister Transport Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross TD expects the final report of the risk assessor on the hand over of Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company to the local County Council will be presented to the council at a meeting scheduled to take place on 26 February but now changed to Tuesday, March 6th.
UPDATE: A DLRCoCo spokesperson advises meeting will now be held on March 6th at 6.30pm and will be webcast.
Minister Ross says that after that he 'expects matters to then progress towards the agreement of a model and a transfer date'.
The information was given to Senator Victor Boyhan who called on the Minister to 'indicate his intentions to authorise the transfer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company from the State to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council', as provided for under the Harbours Act 2015.
In a detailed reply to the Senator, Ross also told the Seanad, 'there are two court cases which constrains me enormously in terms of what I can say about some of the issues raised'.
'They are very delicate issues and I do not want to say anything which would prejudice the case', he added.
Read the details from the Seanad Éireann debate Tuesday, 6 Feb 2018 here.
Boyhan previously raised the matter of the transfer of the Harbour to the County Council in December, as Afloat.ie reported here