Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The exhibition, which is the planning process, will happen early next year. The delay has been due to the options of building a bypass channel or reinforcing the bridge in the town. That issue has come up. The diversion channel seems to be the preferred option. What we call going to exhibition will happen in the first quarter of next year. As the Senator said, I have been to the area and have met local residents, business people and the public representatives, such as the Senator herself. I am very conscious and acutely aware that last week or the week before the town came within millimetres of flooding again. Work is under way in Crossmolina, perhaps not as much as people would like and maybe not as quickly as they would like, but all I can assure the Senator of is that one of my high priorities is to push that project as quickly as I can.