Mr. ?anna Rowe:

As I said, we are looking to support these houseboat communities. They have grown up organically. They are very welcome to our waterways. As the Deputy rightly pointed out, they bring life to the waterways. However, we also need to avoid the situation which the English waterways have found themselves in, where London is choked with houseboats, and traversing the waterways in the UK is now problematic for those who want to get from A to B. We need to avoid that at all costs in Ireland.