Mr. Maurice Buckley:

The Deputy raises a very good point and it just emphasises the huge complexity of the flooding issue in Ireland, even without the climate change dimension, which is escalating the whole problem even more. I reassure the Deputy, however, that we work very closely with Irish Water in particular because drainage is a huge factor and, as the Deputy will know, Irish Water has an enormous investment programme in place to upgrade the drainage system and to separate runoff water from the main sewer systems in many towns in Ireland, and they are very often the same towns where we do flood schemes. Bandon is another example.