Mr. Tony Smyth:

Under the Arterial Drainage Act 1945, we completed a number of catchment drainage schemes for which we have maintenance responsibility. There are approximately 11,500 km of channel around the country to be maintained and this is done by our regional staff in Trim, Limerick and Headford. It is not exactly on a cyclical basis but they maintain most of the channels in a cycle of about five years, so one comes out with about 2,200 km and the associated structures that would be on that in terms of embankments. That is planned through our maintenance and detailed planning of that goes into what is needed. Where people make complaints about the state of the channel, that is taken into account and built into the next-----