Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)

If an agreed emergency plan was in operation, why was there a distinct lack of sandbags in every local authority area? When I asked for sandbags, why I was told to go to a supplier and pay €3 per sandbag? That is wrong.

The emergency services did not attend various floods because of a lack of funding. If the Minister is in the area, will he please visit north Roscommon and south Leitrim because Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon have been badly hit?

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