Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They are directed at anyone who is willing to answer. As I stated, Cork County Council is hindered and can only do so much. IFI has advised on another site but cannot guarantee that it will allocate funding and does not want the weir reinstated to its original condition. If the weir has worked for 200 years, surely, a short-term solution is to reinstate what is there and to go forward with planning. If it takes ten years thereafter to put in a new fish pass, so be it. At least the benefit that has been enjoyed for the past 200 years by the people of Fermoy and along the River Blackwater would be restored, which should be the first priority.