Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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Members of Cork County Council would tell the Deputy, if he met them, that there is flooding from four sources. It is unique. There is flooding from an underground source, like a turlough, flooding from the tide, flooding from the rain and flooding from insufficient capacity in the river. It is a totally different comparison now, with a €50 million scheme in 2024. That is the stage the project it is at. It is at stage two of four-stage process, with stage five being the handover to the local authority, rather than what was originally being suggested in 2017. I have addressed that point on a number of occasions in the Dáil. It is a far bigger scheme. Actually, since Storm Babet, led by Cork County Council as the lead authority, and with the consulting engineers Arup, we have used the data that has been collected on foot of Storm Babet to make sure that the scheme as it was designed would have protected the properties had it been built. That work is almost finished and I think it is fair to say that now that it is almost concluded, it would have succeeded. It is a totally different scheme.