Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have prepared a document on repairing owners which has been completed but we want to make sure we have legal advice before we issue it. It will advise farmers on what they can and cannot do in terms of their own banks of land beside the rivers. The biggest difficulty of the farmers I speak to is not the cost but the fact they do not know how to go about getting the permissions to do it. We are working on trying to get that in place. The concern of the farmers I have met is to make sure they keep the water going so it does not flood their land. They have a vested interest in it and have never said they want money to do it. What they have asked about it how to go about doing it and where to go. There is a plethora of agencies they may have to satisfy and we are trying to give them the guidance and help them so they can do the work.