Mr. Éanna Rowe:

The Deputy has hit the nail on the head. The three navigations in the eastern region – the Royal Canal, the Grand Canal and the Barrow – are unique and very different. We have done a lot of work to identify what makes them unique. We have just received approval from the just transition fund for an activation, animation and interpretation programme for the Royal Canal and the Royal Canal Greenway. It will speak very clearly to the heritage of the Royal Canal Greenway and particularly its use as the National Famine Way, which brought people from the west of Ireland down the canals to take the ships from Dublin Port to Liverpool and then to the New World, as it was known at the time. It will speak very strongly to that. The Grand Canal programme will speak very strongly to its industrial heritage and, indeed, the story of barley being shipped one way and Guinness being shipped the opposite way. It is very connected to the industrial heritage. The animation and activation programme for the Barrow that will follow the Barrow Blueway development and navigation itself will be based on houses, castles and gardens. Again, there is a very strong offering in that locality, particularly in the form of great houses. We are doing this work with our colleagues in Fáilte Ireland and all the local authorities in the relevant area.