Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Members will have to table questions to the Minister to find out why people have been let down in this way. The people of Templemore and surrounding areas are upset at the manner in which they have been treated. They accepted for years that nothing was being done about the problem and were then happy to hear it was going to be addressed. As stated by Mr. Smyth, at that stage there had been a consultation process with landowners and so on, following which the people of Templemore were told in the town chamber by the Minister and an engineer from the OPW that direct labour on the scheme would commence at the end of 2011. The situation is unsatisfactory. We will leave it at that.