Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would be the first to acknowledge and appreciate the 95 projects that are ongoing. I am thankful they are under way. It is the stability enjoyed by this Government over the years it has been in office that has allowed commitments in respect of this issue and others to be made and, it is to be hoped, honoured. It is our overriding interest as Members of this House to give value to those who voted for us by providing that stability, despite the difficulties that are obvious in many other areas. That is our duty and our obligation. Were it not for Brexit we would be gone out of here and the Government would not be involved in those projects. The Government does, however, retain responsibility and has, at the discretion of the House, the ability to deliver on that responsibility. I appreciate that. I am simply asking for the details associated with those projects and that development on that side of the balance sheet be correlated with the data of the insurance industry in order to show us that the money was well spent and has resulted not only in protection and mitigating measures being put in place, but in insurance now flowing to the people affected.

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