asked the Minister for Finance when it is hoped to have the arterial drainage programme fully completed.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Arterial Drainage Programme.
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It is difficult to be prophetic on this. An organisation has been built up and the progress now being made is somewhat better than was anticipated. A good deal of work remains to be done, but I should hope that most of the arterial drainage problems will have been met in 15-20 years from now.
Twenty years is a long time for my constituency to wait.
We are well in advance.
Is that reply in keeping with your 100,000 job promise?
I am waiting for interruptions to cease.
Deputy Blowick did not get much done about it.
I started it anyway, when you were afraid to start it in 1948.
You did not.
We did. You got cold feet over it.
All the Deputy did was blow a whistle.
Deputy Blowick is including postscripts to every question asked and I ask him to cease.
Perhaps the Chair will keep the Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach off his postscripts too.