Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will go through it again. The initial estimate from the worst affected counties is that €65 million is the scale of the damage. That breaks down as follows: €20 million for roads under the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, €35 million on coastal, and €10 million on tourism. Within the coastal a large proportion would be marine and harbour related which we do not fund. We have responsibility for flood defences. In answer to a question from Deputy McDonald, I outlined that we would need more money. However, that is across the Government and especially in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We cannot be specific on the total extra amount because we do not have the detailed assessment at this stage.