Mr. Tony Smyth:

The design is under way. The complexity of that area is trying to get the balance between reducing the constructed flood defences in the city and using the ESB reservoirs in Carrigadrohid and Innishcarra as a storage mechanism when a flood is coming. That requires getting the technology of that and the forecasting system right, understanding what type of flood would come down and how the dam storage can be utilised, that is, to empty it first before the flood arrives and then to store the flood, which in turn will reduce the extent of works necessary through the city and, therefore, the cost of those works. That is ongoing with design consultants at present. We are hoping to go to statutory exhibition in the spring. It is a little later than we had expected, but it is driven by the timeline of the consultants in coming to a conclusion and working with the ESB and the councils in Cork.