Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are looking for no more than the people in Kerry deserve. We have gone down all the routes and all the surveys have been done by CFRAM. It was going on for six or seven years. There was agreement between Kerry County Council and the OPW to make an application under what was known as the minor flood mitigation scheme. That has been done. There are two applications with the OPW, one for €98,000 and the other for €71,000. I am asking the Tánaiste to ensure the local authority gets this funding to clear out the river.

I am doing nothing out of the way in asking the Tánaiste because we are fully entitled to get funding to clear this stretch of the river to ensure that people's houses will not be flooded and that the roads to those houses will not be flooded. The last trip Paddy Healy had from his house was on a boat and he died in hospital subsequently. I pass that place every day. I ask the Tánaiste to ensure that-----

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