andMr. Carty asked the Minister for Finance when the engineering report on the Shannon flood problem is expected to be available.

It is expected that the agreed report by the engineers of the Electricity Supply Board and the Office of Public Works on the preliminary investigations recommended in the Rydell Report will be available for consideration in the next week or so.

In other words, it will be out in time for the coming general election?

It probably will. There will be so many things out for the general election that it will hardly be noticed.

Will it be published as soon as it is available?

Some time after consideration.

It will not be publish before it is considered?

No.