Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)

This is in my area of east Cork. It relates in part to Storm Babet. We have been meeting the families on a regular basis. Basically, they have been promised proper floodgates. I have raised this as a Topical Issue. If there are five feet of water, you do not provide a protective device that is two and a half feet high. The latter looks more like a car jack in a wetsuit, with aluminium clips, things with slots, etc. I can understand their frustration. There is a place in Mogeely where there are timber-framed houses. Flood-prevention gates cannot be placed on the doorframes there. There are 56 entry points to those houses, for example, for Eir and so on. The residents feel very frustrated. They want to come at some stage, if possible, Chair, and add to where we were when Storm Babet happened and to what has been done since. There has been positive stuff, but it has got to the stage where things are not moving fast enough. People are getting worried about whether they are going to lose their livelihoods and homes. I am glad we are bringing the matter back before the committee. Once we get a response back I would love to see them in for an update. I will not delay any more than that.