Mr. Tony Smyth:

It is at design stage at the moment. The design of the flood defences in the city are being developed, including the new operating environment for the reservoir, with different discharge protocols and a forecasting system that would inform the operators of the dam when they might draw it down to create storage and hold back part of the flood so that flood defences would be adequate for whatever flood comes along.

That will go to public statutory exhibition in the spring. It will be open to the public to comment at that time and we will take any comments or observations. It is a statutory process and we will determine whether what the public has to say to us will inform any changes. The process will then move to a detailed design to prepare tender documentation for a construction contract.