Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be very brief because I know I have only a minute. The Minister of State might, if he can, give me an answer as to when he thinks the work in Termonbarry will be done. I accept the Department probably cannot do Termonbarry and Jamestown together. One has to be done before the other, going back to the point Deputy Harty made about the levels of the river.

The Minister of State mentioned something about the low-cost scheme. He indicated that local authorities may not be using it to the extent they should be using it. One often sees a side road that is flooded, and it goes back to the Shannon. It is a question of the water making its way around, through drains from the Shannon, or whichever way the flow is coming, as it makes its way to the Shannon. Is the Minister of State saying such roads are possibly entitled to funding from this low-cost scheme? It is very important that local authorities make submissions in respect of all those roads in order to solve those flooding issues because often it is only a bit of a drain that has to be cleaned out or whatever.

There was to be a Bord na Móna pilot scheme to take out more silt. Where are we with that? There is still a capacity issue with the Shannon.

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