Member

Some years ago, I got involved with a previous Minister over who paid for the lighthouses around the country. It must have been nearly 100 years after the Republic of Ireland got independence, but UK ship owners and shipping lines were still paying the cost of maintaining the lighthouses around the Republic of Ireland. When I challenged the Minister on this, she said that they were not very keen to talk. Well, they wouldn’t be, would they? Since then, it has improved; it has been done.