Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important to point out that there is nobody at fault in these matters. My officials and the officials of Donegal County Council, every county council and the OPW - those responsible for the north west are sitting in the Gallery - are at pains to point out that they are often in people's houses when they are flooded. They have to brush out the faeces, the urine and the excrement at 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. The officials in the Gallery today from the OPW are not in any way holding back anything, in any county in the country. I can assure members of that.