Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is right that some good work has been done under the flood relief schemes but we cannot have a situation where it takes five or six years to be approaching the end of stage one. That is ridiculous. Deputy O'Connor, who also raised this, is not here. We will look for a timeline, specifically on the Midleton scheme, which the officials did not give. I do not have much knowledge of the situation but we know the town was badly flooded in recent months. We will ask about the Midleton, Mountmellick and Crossmolina schemes. We will also raise the specific suggestion about the environmental assessment role being taken out of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.