Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I apologise. To Deputy Ó Cearúil, I absolutely agree on the need for social infrastructure to be considered alongside expansion, schools, creches and other social infrastructure.

I agree with Deputy Heneghan on the detention ponds and all that. There are mechanisms that are low cost that can be used and should be deployed. On Dublin Bay more generally, we want to clean up our waterways and estuaries significantly.

To Deputy Fleming, we have a target date of the end of July for publication of the national development plan. The Apple windfall, as it is called, will be allocated in the context of the NDP. The big priorities are housing, water, the grid, health digitalisation and public transport and roads.

Deputy Ó Murchú referred to the EPA report. I do not have the exact specifics of the ones he referenced. I will talk to the Minister, Deputy James Browne, who is responsible for the wastewater treatment plants and so on.

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