To reverse engines a little bit and to talk about the inability of the Dublin Corporation or any other such local authority, but particularly Dublin Corporation, to make proposals to improve traffic and to relieve congestion is rather laughable when we look at the ridiculous situation that obtained here in this city yesterday with ample warning from two o'clock that it was freezing and the traffic comes to a standstill when all that was required was sand and salt and we could have avoided the chaos we had last night. Could the Minister do something about that and direct the corporation to do the job which is their job to do?

From a preliminary inquiry on this I understand that the trucks concerned could not travel on the ice——

They could not travel to-day either to collect bins in parts of the city. What is wrong?