Mr. Niall Galway:

There has been a figure bandied around about a rate or how to charge and this has come from a group of people who live on boats in Ringsend Basin. I represent the Royal Canal Amenity Group but I have spoken to some of them. They have suggested a square metre rate so the bigger the boat, the more one pays, and the smaller the boat, likewise. One person there has suggested, and has used as an example, that they have gone on to one of the websites and have figured out how much per square metre an apartment is to rent there. The charge is based on a percentage of that and there are services then added on to that, so that if they have water, it is a percentage of that, or, if they have electricity, it is a further percentage for that. That has been debated within the Grand Canal Dock community, with no set figure, but that is how they were thinking of working it out.