Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

One of the things that is a concern relates to other parts of the system. There seems to be quite a dramatic reduction in the number of people who are using the waterways for navigation purposes in cruisers and so on. Does Mr. McDonagh have a rationale for why that is happening? For example, costs are part of it. Has Waterways Ireland done, or is it doing, an analysis on that? If Waterways Ireland is going to make a big investment, one would expect that it would be looking at who is going to use this. I can see that the greenway side is being heavily used but there is a loss in the number of navigation movements.