Mr. Éanna Rowe:

Historically, we have had a permit in place on the Royal Canal, Grand Canal and the Barrow navigation. That permit was set at €127, which was £100 in punts, over 30 years ago. Our ambition is that there would be a similar permit across the network of 1,100 km of waterway we manage. At the moment, the proposal is to raise that permit fee from €127 to €200 and apply it not only to the eastern region or as we call it the Barrow and the Royal and Grand canals, but also to the Shannon, Shannon-Erne and Ulster Canal. Once we have completed the process of the by-laws in this jurisdiction, we will move to the Northern jurisdiction where the Erne by-laws will also be updated. A similar update will be applied across all 1,100 km of inland navigation.