Mr. Jim Casey:

The Government announced in the past week or two direct funding of, I believe, €100 million to support the improvement of barriers and mitigation of fish passages. There is a specific fund to cover that. That will likely come through IFI.

The OPW can play a part in this. Historically in conjunction with some of the existing arterial drainage schemes, there was also a removal of barriers for the purpose of making fish passage more effective. This is not something new to us. We have been doing this work for many decades. There is now a specific funding package, which was announced very recently.