Mr. Peter Walsh:

I know from working on projects before that watercourses are connected in ways that are far more complex than one might initially think. The removal of a blockage in one area can lead to flooding somewhere else. These things are never simple but we will have to start looking at drainage and maintaining a road above water level in whatever way is most prudent. It is not a programme we have started other than to identify where it is vulnerable. We are currently doing risk assessments because one cannot do the work everywhere all the time. We have to identify the areas that are most vulnerable.