Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to put on record my thanks to the emergency services for their work over recent days. What Deputy Brady said about west Wicklow is correct; there are still people isolated there today. However, I want to relate to the House something that happened last night when two teams of the Civil Defence from Dublin and Wicklow went to a house in west Wicklow to provide assistance. When they eventually got there at 6.30 p.m., the roadway had been cleared, the boiler the people in the house claimed was out of commission was working and the sticks they could not get out of the shed were in the house. What they requested when the members of the Civil Defence knocked on the door was another bottle of whiskey.

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