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News and Star
Friday, November 16, 2001
WATERFORD IFA Industrial Chairman, Gerry Murphy has reported that while solid progress in negotiations with the Department of the Environment on roads fundamental issues remain to be resolved before the IFA would recommend any agreement to almost 8,000 landowners expected to lose land for the national roads. Mr Murphy said among the issues where agreement had been reached were IFA’s demand that local authorities and the NRA must be fully responsible to provide and maintain indefinitely stock proof fencing on all national roads, including dual and single carriageways.
Mr. Murphy said that landowners must have binding assurances that the NRA and local authorities will comply in full with all the terms of any agreement ultimately reached. He said: “The IFA cannot allow any situation arise whereby landowners would find themselves, by default, before the existing property arbitration system, due to the failure of a local authority, or the NRA, to stick to the terms of any new agreement.”
Mr. Murphy said that further progress had been made by IFA in agreeing a proper system for valuing land taken for roads and CPO procedures, which would greatly improve the fairness and speed up the operation of the compulsory acquisition system. Mr. Murphy also confirmed that negotiations were continuing with the Department of the Environment
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