Mr. Paul Kavanagh:

It is just for the design. We are not talking about repair or any other type of work. We met the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, with Pa O'Driscoll in Fermoy a few weeks ago and he said he would look seriously at it with the relevant Minister of State, Deputy English, and the other Ministers to see if they could come up with the other half. This is only for the design, however. The river will be gone, the weir will be gone, our livelihoods will be gone and the clubs will be gone. I spoke to a man who came from Fermoy 30 or 40 years ago and he said he could not believe it had been allowed to get to this point.

It is very unfair that we, who are doing all this as volunteers, are being given the runaround.