Mr. Jerry Gleeson:

I will give a quick example. Waterways Ireland has serviced jetties in Ringsend Basin where there are 20 boats. All of its jetties are full, which is great. In Sallins, I am unsure exactly how many boats are on the serviced jetty but it is full. One then comes to Lowtown, where there are 17 boats on the serviced jetty, two of which are dwellings. The rest of the live aboards in the Lowtown area do not choose to live on that jetty.

When one goes to Shannon Harbour, there is what is called a residential jetty with six spaces, two of which are residential boats and the other four are weekend boats. If you do not build the jetties in the right places and in the right way, people will not want to rent them.