Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am just finished. On 23 January, when I asked specific questions, the Minister of State, Deputy Costello, gave a commitment that he, through the officials in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, would come back and answer those specific questions. That has not happened. Because of that, I am proposing an amendment to the Order of Business today that the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, or the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, would come into this House for one hour only to answer specific questions with regard to how we are going to compensate people and remediate and improve our flood defences in the short term, and to answer the questions I put to the House on 23 January that remain unanswered.