Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

I welcome the witnesses. I thank them very much. I know they are all busy in their own areas. Storm Éowyn, as has been said by Deputy Daly, created a lot of trouble in Kerry. We have high areas that were affected by the snow. People could not get up there at all in places like Cordal and Glencar and places were without electricity for maybe a week to ten days, which is too long. We know the Government's policy about these new electric heating systems. Four new houses were in one field together. They did not have water, electricity or anything and no one could get up to them. There were more houses separately around the place, but this was one particular example of a family with four new houses. They say the road was too dangerous for the engineer to let anyone up to take the snow off it or to spread grit on it. It was too high for that. Can the witnesses see that happening again in places like Brosna, Knocknagashel, Gneeveguilla and different high places that always get hit with snow and the electricity seems to go out? Is that going to continue or will things improve?