Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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I have some questions of my own. The Minister of State spoke about establishing the humanitarian support scheme on a statutory basis, which I welcome because at the moment it can be quite ad hoc. As Deputy Stanton said, it is a very effective and useful scheme when it does work. I have seen situations where businesses were flooded and the uncertainty around whether they will get grant assistance is very stressful for people so putting the scheme on a statutory basis would be important. I ask the Minister of State to outline the work being done to put the scheme on a statutory footing. Is the scheme sufficiently robust or will more money be required in future due to climate change? Unfortunately, we are probably going to see a lot more flooding than we saw in the past.