Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is a danger that we would spend our money for flood relief on roads. I know, for instance, that the money was provided by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport from its budgets for anywhere along Loch Fuinseann where the roads were raised. There is money available to the local authorities for that. People contact me, including the Deputy, about getting works done here and there in terms of flood relief, which is my Department's responsibility. It would be like asking the Department of Health to build a road because we cannot get into the ambulance to the house. It does not do that and I cannot do that. I do not have a budget for it. We do not get a budget for it and we do not have the expertise that the local authorities have to construct roads or reconstruct them. Our expertise is in the area of flood and flood relief.