Mr. Coilín O'Reilly:

Yes. As the Senator knows well, our nature-based solutions in Carlow have gone down very well. I will speak at a local authority water programme event in the morning for all local authorities and will yet again promote nature-based solutions to try to get some soil back where there is an awful lot of tarmac and hardcore, which is always welcome.

The other point is well made. I am the local authority representative on the independent advisory group on nature restoration law. We will see in the coming years a real increase in the tree canopy across the country and the need for that. This will help to mitigate that rainfall, take that away from the storm water system, and put it into more traditional systems.