Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Achieving planning permission is the biggest obstacle. Consider Midleton flood relief scheme: if the barriers to planning were not there, that town would not have been flooded. That is an issue we mentioned previously. There is provision in the budget for extra funding allocation towards the national development plan to meet increased costs associated with construction. Was there not a specific provision?