Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At the beginning of the section it is stated "Waterways Ireland may ... make bye-laws". It does not state it "must" make them. If it was to become common practice for people to extract water from the canals for one reason or another, perhaps to irrigate fields, for example, would it not be as reasonable to charge them for doing so, as it is to charge boat owners? Actually, according to the legislation, we are not charging the boat owner but the boat.