Hiking cost of permits for houseboat owners 'would create homelessness'

A group representing people living on houseboats on Ireland’s rivers and waterways has said that raising the cost of annual permits for such residences will lead to homelessness. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

A group representing people living on houseboats on Ireland’s rivers and waterways has said that raising the cost of annual permits for such residences will lead to homelessness.

Waterways Ireland, the body with responsibility for managing inland water routes, is proposing to update the more than 30-year-old bye laws in place for governing the country's navigable waterways.