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

I appreciate that. I have a secondary point to make, expanding on the €5.8 million individual property protection scheme. Another valid point that has been made is that we obviously have different homes at different scales.

We have semi-detached housing, detached housing and housing estates. We have one-off sites that have flooded along the urban area of Midleton and also terraced housing. Regarding terraced housing that flooded in Midleton, I am thinking particularly about areas like the Mill Road, and down towards Midleton College where terraced homes are at risk of flooding. There is a fear about the cut-off of the IPP schemes. The fear is that in a similar or comparable event to Storm Babet, the support to those individual homes would stop. We hope this will not happen before the construction of the main Midleton flood relief scheme. There is a fear that where individual property protection schemes are in place, the water may be pushed up further, perhaps to the last home or last two homes in a row. That is a valid point. It is not a situation to draw straws from. I am in no way seeking to politicise it. This matter has been brought to our attention and I just want to put it on the Minister of State's desk.