Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

For the information of Deputy Penrose, the President, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, lived in Ballycar and was raised there. He lived very close to the rail line we are discussing. It is the next parish to me, Newmarket-on-Fergus. It is a long-standing issue and as I understand it, over the past ten years, the railway line has been flooded six times. I have raised this, as have many other public representatives in Clare, and absolute frustration has been expressed today by all the members here. Standing back to look at this, nobody wants to grasp the nettle or take responsibility.