Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We spoke about irrigation, drainage, flood plains and all this kind of stuff. We now live in a time when it is a sacrilege to drain areas of wetlands on the basis that some little slug who is living there and worming his way into infinity needs to be protected at all costs. Some years ago, €20 million had to be spent to divert a motorway after one of these slugs was discovered. His name was vertigo angustior.