Arthur Spring (Kerry North-West Limerick, Labour) | Oireachtas source

What percentage of that was used for flood measures? The Minister of State has indicated that we need to spend some money on the damage that occurred at Christmas time. He is hoping to be on his way to Europe to learn about the European solidarity fund, and I wish him the best of luck with that. In the meantime, have we made an application to the European solidarity fund for places such as Kerry, particularly in light of the fact that a great deal of the coastline is, as it were, soft coastline, candidate special areas of conservation or sand dunes which have been damaged in the storms? Have we made an application and should that alleviate some of our funding problems after the storm damage?