Mr. ?anna Rowe:

Of course there is. We have demonstrated that willingness following our previous presentation to the committee. We are willing to listen and to move. As I said, we want to get these by-laws right and we want to make sure they are implementable.

On the services at Grand Canal Basin and equating them to London, I certainly would not like to live aboard in London. It is choked with liveaboard boats. It is problematic. A lot of the waterways in London are now open sewers because the facilities are not there at all. However, we have had some catch-up, especially along stretches of the canals. As our colleagues said, we need to have an investment plan for pump-outs and other services, not only for houseboats but for those boats that want to traverse our canals. We have an investment programme we want to achieve over the next three years for the services people can expect to receive along our canals. That would be line with those we already have in place on the Shannon, the Shannon-Erne and the Erne systems.