Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Buckley can appreciate that almost 300 properties were flooded. Coming into the winter when there may be periods of heavy rainfall people are anticipating the worst, such as heavy rainfall coming down the from Slieve Bloom mountains. Can Mr. Buckley give me a rough idea of when work is likely to start and the length of time it will take to complete the physical works? Were it not for Laois County Council carrying out extensive channel widening and other works in and around that town over the past two years serious flooding would have occurred in it again on a number of occasions. Can Mr. Buckley give me a rough time for those two works?