Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for his various questions. It is great to hear his acknowledgement of all the work being done by his local authority in dealing with the various flooding risks in his constituency. He detailed as well as I could all of the work that has been done to deal with the flood risks associated with the River Shannon. A great deal of funding and collaboration has gone into trying to reduce the future risk of flooding. It is great to hear from the Deputy the impact that has had.

Of the two questions the Deputy put to me, the first related to Sligo Garda station. He said that there were questions he wanted answered. As I told his constituency colleague a moment ago, I am not in a position to answer those questions now. The Deputy will appreciate that, given the subject of these statements, but I will follow up with the Minister for Justice and Equality and the OPW to help the Deputy to get the information he needs.

Regarding the question of turloughs and the work that is under way, additional focus has been placed on this matter since 2016. Sixty-five monitoring stations were deployed at various turloughs across the country. Twenty turloughs now have permanent telemetric sites located within them in order to track what is happening and evaluate the kinds of risk they pose. I understand that a follow-up project is now under way, entitled GWClimate, to assess the potential future risks that could develop at the turloughs. I noted the Deputy's comments in respect of a particular turlough. I will ask the OPW to revert to him with an update on that site.

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