Mr. Éanna Rowe:

Absolutely. I live in County Clare and we will see the Deputy, please God, in a couple of weeks' time in Croke Park. I live beside the water and when I go for a walk with my family I am a user. If I am on my boat, jet ski or paddleboard or sitting enjoying the waterway at one of our facilities or cycling on one of our greenways, I am also a user. That is the user base. Our private boaters, the houseboat community and all of those who are gaining well-being or active participation also are part of our user base. We have good, structured relationships with the user base. For example, we meet on a quarterly basis with the private boaters' representative body. We meet the Heritage Boat Association. During the course of the by-laws process, we met 27 different stakeholder groups across the user base and we have also met representatives of the commercial sector.

On the commercial side, the three main areas are cruise hire, private marina owners and, crucially, those who are building new businesses such as small cafés, bike hire, stand up paddleboard hire and are basing themselves along the waterways. That is the client base.

Regarding the question about the legal team and the encroachments, the team is made up of eight staff with a solicitor and there is also access to the wider legal team. This team was established in the past year and it is making significant progress. There are 430 identified alleged encroachments on the Shannon, not 700 as may have been quoted earlier. In the first year of the team we are already dealing with 55 of them. Hopefully, I have answered all of the Deputy's questions.