Mr. Robert Mooney:

I thank the Deputy. It was very helpful to meet members of the organisation. We heard first-hand their experiences with flooding along the Shannon, of which we are very conscious and doing our level best to address. As we undertook on the day, we have had some follow-up actions with the Save Our Shannon Organisation. We have provided a direct link for communication purposes so it can contact the OPW and we can relay any concerns its members have about the management of water levels directly through to the ESB and Waterways Ireland. The second undertaking we have is that we are going to meet them on a working group that has been set up to consider the next steps for the Shannon Callows pinch points project. They are two commitments we have made that we are following up on. In a broader sense, on the approach to dealing with flood risk on the Shannon, we have a whole programme of flood relief schemes that are largely centred on dealing with communities. They are under way and progressing. The other aspects of flood risk then relate to the residual risk that is left. That includes, as the Deputy has identified, farmland along the Shannon Callows and those properties that would not be protected by the flood schemes.