Mr. Éanna Rowe:

There are two parts to the answer, if I may. We have an accelerated asset management programme in place. That programme is looking at the investment in the infrastructure through capital allocations from our parent Department. That includes what the Cathaoirleach is talking about, including the pump outs and so forth and so on. We have developed a second proposal around targeted serviced houseboat infrastructure. We only have 32 serviced houseboat facilities available at the moment. We want to increase that to 170 in the next five years. We have laid out how we will achieve that. It is subject to planning permission in various locations. We also want to look at a further investment of at least 170 houseboat units offline. It would be like marinas on the River Shannon and the River Erne, whereby we would take a cut off the main canal and create specific marinas that could cater for houseboats. That will take at least five years, if not longer, to develop.

The Cathaoirleach asked about categorisation and the pathway of the fees. We have laid out a table in appendix 1 of the supplementary information we have provided to clearly show the original fee proposal and where we have got to.

This includes phase 1, the KPMG proposal for fees, the IWAI proposals, our own phase 1 proposals and where we ended at. We have gone from suggestions such as the €7,865 that KPMG proposed to €4,000, at which we have now landed. Notwithstanding that, as I said, we are again reviewing those fees based on the suggestion of our parent Department.