Mr. Éanna Rowe:

If we look at the 55 open cases at the moment, the timescale it took to do all the work associated with getting clear title etc. on those and resolving the alleged encroachments, it is going to take us three to five years to deal with all of the 430 alleged encroachments on the Shannon. Deputy Buckley can be assured that, when we were established, we had title issues right along the Royal Canal and on parts of the Grand Canal and on the Barrow, which we have resolved. Aside from a very limited number of encroachments on the Grand Canal, the last area with which we are dealing is the Shannon navigation.