Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I am trying to visualise this. You want the viability in the mix of commercial traffic, offerings for tourism and all of that. Will the witnesses go back over one point? I asked a question earlier about the viability and the costs, including input costs. When it came to the cost of living, there were grants due to the cost of energy, for example. It would not have been specific to this particular area because you had to have a shop front and some of the supports were only available to a specific category of people. Is Waterways Ireland engaging with the commercial side in terms of the financial viability? It is obviously terrific that there is development going on right across the waterways. The greenways are kind of separate from that, but they an important part of it at the same time. The loss of cruiser traffic, for example, would have an impact on other facilities, such as restaurants, cafés, hire and a whole lot of different things. Has there been a serious look at the costs and the viability and addressing that reduction in use? The greenway people will lose some of these offerings as well.