Anne Ferris (Wicklow, Labour)
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That would be good. The council has a good environmental monitoring committee for the flood protection works. Representatives of residents, Inland Fisheries Ireland and the OPW are involved in that committee. The OPW's representative is co-operative and doing a good job.

The insurance companies will eventually be given details on the works, but what will people do in the meantime? It is a difficult situation, but there could be another flood during construction. Contractors have been taken on and cannot worsen the current situation, but there could be an act of God like a hurricane. Some of us who have been living alongside the river for a long time and have been insured. I have lived there for 28 years and have not experienced a problem with insurance yet, as it is not due for renewal. People have been waiting for flood defence works since Hurricane Charlie, yet they are now being told that they cannot be insured. It is ludicrous.