James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I asked about the Arterial Drainage Act. I imagine the Department of public expenditure is in the OPW's ear saying, from a penny-pinching point of view, that it cannot do this and that the OPW should ram the bill on to Cork County Council. Does Mr. Casey accept, given the extraordinarily high cost of this project, that that would be a crippling amount of money to expect a local authority to pay and that it should come directly from Exchequer funds at a national level?