Mr. Tony Smyth:

In the preliminary flood assessments, the CFRAM report identified 300 areas across the country, effectively all the centres of population. It considers proposed measures for those. Major schemes may come out from it, and we will carry those, perhaps in co-operation with the local authority. It may identify minor works in some of those areas but outside that, if there are further works that the local authorities wish to carry out, they can do it with their own funding, if they have it, or apply under the minor works scheme. The criteria for that are on our website. As the Minister of State has indicated, we have completed over 540 of those, with spending of €35 million in the six or seven years since 2009. I told the Minister of State the wrong number. It is a very good support for local authorities in helping them with those issues, with small centres and smaller protection is needed.