Dáil debates
Thursday, 7 February 2019
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Flood Risk Management
2:50 pm
Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent) | Oireachtas source
On the Deputy's first question on relocation, he referred to County Roscommon, which I have visited on many occasions. As for Lough Funshinagh, plenty of people have made promises. I have delivered in terms of the funding to the local authority to come in looking for a scheme, and we will make that happen.
The Deputy talks about the relocation scheme. I have sat in kitchens with people around this country. One hundred and thirty-four people applied for it. There are now 36 looking to move. People do not want to move. In some cases, people have come and said that they would move and we are working with those people, but when one returns and engages with them, they say it did not rain this year or they did not experience high floods and would like to stay. We are asking people to give up their family home to move. In some cases, people just do not want to and they work on it.
What was the other question the Deputy posed? The Deputy asked three questions.
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