Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If the Deputy thinks he can deal with Waterford, Wexford, Cork, Limerick, Ennis, Galway and all the other places which have suffered severe flooding now - not to mention if the same weather patterns would present in Dublin as they did a number of years ago - he must be aware that the scale of the engineering works and capital costs involved will be very extensive. We must know what is to be done before we can plan to do it. In order to do this, there must be an in-depth analysis based on river catchments, patterns of weather changes and what they lead to.

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