What is the top priority of the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure?
Is it to promote culture?
No.
To promote the arts?
No.
To promote leisure?
No.
… to promote social and economic equality and tackle poverty and social exclusion.
Irish waterways history 
To promote the *idea* of social and economic equality? Or to actually attempt to achieve it? What better way to make us all equal than to give us narrowboat holidays! :-D