Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, I appreciate that but the Minister of State will have heard me say on that same occasion that if the process is open-ended there will be no definitive timeline as to when it ends and it could go on forever. The Minister of State said on that day that there is nothing we can do, but there is something we can do. We are legislators. We can ensure there is a timeline on the process. We can bring forth legislation such that in regard to the planning issue in terms of the Arterial Drainage Acts a timeline must be set and adhered to. It cannot be open-ended, otherwise we could be here in ten years' time. This is going on since 2012. The minutes of the meeting in 2012 recorded that this flood drainage scheme would go ahead. I appreciate that as stated by the Minister of State he had a meeting with one of the councillors. The reality is that at last month's meeting in Enniscorthy the councillors again requested a meeting with the Minister. I am here pre-empting that. The Minister will have to have that meeting.

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