Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government set out a plan to deal with the issue of flooding in many parts of the country and we all were delighted to see a budget of €460 million for that. As the Taoiseach will be aware, one can see in many parts of the country floods are beginning to rise again and there is a lot of worry among the people. This is the question I have for the Taoiseach. Before Christmas there was an announcement that a dredging programme for the River Shannon would commence. Can the Taoiseach give me any indication - perhaps Deputy Moran, behind the Taoiseach, can tell him - as to when that programme will commence because that is a major issue?

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