Failure to collect coastline rents costing millions

GOVERNMENT incompetence in collecting rents for leasing the country’s coastline is costing taxpayers millions of euro.

A report by the State’s financial watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has sparked concern over the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources’ ability to enforce payment due on foreshore licenses.

These cover the use of land and seabed between the line of high water of medium tides and the 12-mile territorial sea limits, tidal rivers and estuaries.