Mr. Liam Finnegan:

I might make a point about that. The €100 would be attached to services we require. We require services such as locks and bridges, so we would pay €100 and we would have a smart card or whatever system is put in. For someone based, say, in the middle of a lake who might never want access or might want it once a year, there could be shorter access, perhaps with a smart card for payment for up to five lock movements, instead of there being a charge for nothing but being afloat. We want to pay for services; we have absolutely no problem with that.

When Waterways Ireland talks about this €200 and the hundreds of kilometres that would go towards maintaining, which I agree on, does it have an issue with funding from the Government and Northern Ireland that is leading the organisation to look for that money? Have there been cutbacks to funding from the Government and the Northern authority that leave it short such that it needs to look for additional funding? That was the idea I got from its statement.