Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, Mr. Barnes is right. Norway has the experience and we can learn from it how its model or strategy has evolved over two decades. I attended the conference in question. We have asked the former Governor of the Central Bank to attend a meeting of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight to tease out some of those issues because we can learn from doing so.

I disagree with what Mr. Barnes said about flooding. Many flood relief projects need to be done because they are preventing growth in many of our small towns. In Ballina and Crossmolina, County Mayo, my home place, there cannot be any further development and job creation until the flood relief projects are done. It is crazy that it is taking so long for these projects to be done.