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

Many of those construction projects have four main stages and a number of smaller stages within those four stages. We are being told six years into it that it is approaching the end of stage 1 for a large town at risk of flooding anytime. It is under the Slieve Bloom Mountains and anytime it rains heavily, three hours later the water flows off the Slieve Bloom Mountains down into the middle of the town.