John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

This was not intended to be a question on floods. I record my thanks to local authority members and the emergency services, particularly the Defence Forces and Civil Defence, all of whom have done an outstanding job in the past few days. Those on the front line include members of the Army which filled 200 sandbags an hour in County Clare and Civil Defence, all of whom are voluntary and not associated with local authorities. They have done brilliant work on a voluntary basis. The flood emergency plans worked and it is now a question of cleaning up. We are in recovery phase.

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