Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)

Some local authorities were more impacted by the flooding in November than others. For that reason they would have incurred extra costs. They may have had to spend more money on staffing hours and the clean-up afterwards. For example, when I was in Cork recently I read in the Evening Echo of how the county manager of Cork County Council has raised concerns about the costs of the clean-up following the floods and the recent snow given that the council is stretched to the limit of its finances. I raised the matter previously that Cork County Council had to let go a lot of staff in the past year. Will the Minister provide extra funding for certain local authorities that are struggling because they have had extra responsibility this year?

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