As the Deputy may be aware, Waterways Ireland, a North-South implementation body for inland waterways, was established on 2 December 1999 on foot of the British-Irish Agreement and the supplementary Implementation Bodies Agreement signed in March 1999. It has the functions of management, main tenance, development and restoration of certain inland navigable waterways systems throughout the island, principally for recreational purposes. I am informed by Waterways Ireland that the Study of the Current Management of the Water Levels of the River Shannon, jointly commissioned by Waterways Ireland and the ESB and carried out by independent consultants, Kirk McClure Morton, was finished in April 2001. Copies of the study were sent to my Department, the Department of the Taoiseach and the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Enterprise and Transport. While the study was not formally published, copies are available on request from Waterways Ireland.