Mr. Éanna Rowe:

Again, we manage navigation right across the canals and we have a series of patrollers who assist boaters with their movements through the locks. On average, a patroller will have five locks in a stretch through which they would help boats. When it comes to the city environment we have a lot of technical issues relating to how navigation is managed through the city. In fact, the navigation is managed very carefully through the city. Some of those issues are technical and to do with the design of the lock gates and the lock structures themselves. Some, unfortunately, are associated with antisocial behaviour that the boaters meet on their routes. Finally, it is around having people navigate through the city and across, for example, the Liffey. The Liffey is not in our jurisdiction but if people wanted to go from the Grand Canal onto the Royal Canal, there is a very short window and we need to manage that very carefully, particularly coming into Spencer Dock, which is a sea lock.