Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The one in one in a hundred year event is now to be noted with inverted commas. That concept of a flood has been blown out of the water with the two incidents of flooding in 2009 and 2015. That has been a reality check for everybody. We had thought that we had the flood in 2009 and we would not see such an event again for another hundred years. Last December put paid to that notion. We have to take flooding seriously and we have to take the flood alleviation scheme seriously. We will work toward providing flood alleviation in as many places as we can. I am glad the CFRAM was mentioned. CFRAM is concentrating on the areas where most damage is caused to property by flooding. Towns were mentioned and what happened in Dundrum was raised. CFRAM is concentrating on those areas. Deputy Rabbitte was wondering about south Galway, which is a different kettle of fish and we have to deal with it as a different matter. In Roscommon because of the turloughs it is a different situation and we must deal with that separately. The one in a hundred year flood has to be redefined and timed.