Mr. Éanna Rowe:

I will respond as quickly as I can and if I miss anything, I will come back to the Deputy in writing. Regarding regulation versus encouragement, we work hand in glove in everything we do with partners such as Fáilte Ireland, as I have already mentioned. We were a catalyst in the establishment of the Hidden Heartlands as a destination to attract tourism to the heart of Ireland. We are a huge supporter of Ireland's Ancient East. The canals and the Barrow are critical to that proposition, as is the recently opened section of the Ulster Canal in Clones. We are also a huge supporter of the tourism offering around Dublin, and in particular what the canals in Dublin have to offer. We work hand in glove with Fáilte Ireland on the promotional encouragement advertising piece. Going back to the boat traffic on the Shannon, as an example, we witnessed the fact that the cruise-hire or commercial sector, was having difficulty attracting from its main market in Germany. In conjunction with our colleagues in Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland, we undertook a campaign in the German-speaking market - the predominant one for the cruise-hire sector - last year and this year, to encourage more people to hire boats in Ireland. That is just an example.

We also work hand in glove with all 17 local authorities in this jurisdiction and the six that we operate with in Northern Ireland. We work very closely with them on the development agenda, on the community enhancement and environment agenda and in the tourism space. We feed into the local tourism plans that the local authorities are statutorily responsible for developing. We also deliver many of the projects in conjunction with the local authority sector.

Regarding the commercial versus users question, from my perspective, our main stakeholders are our users. We have really structured engagement-----