Mr. Patrick Harkin:

Correct. The Royal Canal is a 130 km long, the longest greenway in Ireland. We are now building the Grand Canal greenway from Dublin out to Shannon Harbour. It is well developed. We then have the Barrow blueway from Lowtown down to Athy. These are getting huge usage, particularly at the weekends with families. The idea behind the speed limit was to address where you have mammy, daddy and two or three children out walking along and a cyclist or e-scooter whizzing along behind them at high speed. Quite a lot of issues were raised during phase 1 and into phase 2 at the public consultations. This is proof that we listen because we listened to the people who had issues with it. There were issues around enforceability and whether we were going to be standing with speed guns, measuring the speed of the e-scooters and bicycles. Enforceability issues would have arisen with regard to the staffing levels that would be required to man every stretch of greenway. Instead, we have gone for a code of conduct, which marries up with the greenways that already exist and are developing. We will very soon be managing approximately 600 km of greenway, so we want to get it right.