I suppose this might be a Shinner ploy to annoy the DUP, but it is eloquent testimony to the pointlessness of the Northern Ireland Executive. It is unable to get its own act together, it can’t agree a budget — but one of its ministers thinks it should waste yet more of HMG’s money on yet another useless canal restoration proposal.
The Lagan Canal Trust is, it appears, funded by DCAL to enable it to draw up funding applications to DCAL ….
Irish waterways history 