Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The River Slaney-Enniscorthy flood relief scheme is being progressed by Wexford County Council as the contracting authority, with funding by the Office of Public Works.

Good progress is being made in advancing the scheme and a significant amount of the necessary ground work to inform the detailed design of the scheme has been carried out to date. Further work is required on the technical and cost aspects before the scheme is ready to be brought to a public information day. It is planned, however, to hold a public information day, on which the current design of the scheme will be outlined, in quarter 2 of 2018. Subject to a satisfactory outcome to the public information day, it is anticipated that the scheme will be ready to be submitted for confirmation or formal ministerial approval and to go to tender in quarter 3 of 2018. Subject to formal confirmation of the scheme by the Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, we hope to commence construction in late 2018.

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