Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The three projects in question are in discussions between the OPW and Cork County Council. I will revert to the Deputy on each of them individually.

I know the Crookstown one well. I have a brother and sister living in Bandon. Indeed my brother has been flooded on several occasions in Bandon, so I know the value of the flood relief scheme there. I also know the village of Crookstown has often been cut off by flooding.

Flooding is getting worse. It is getting to a situation where many communities are now seeing it not once every five years but once a year. Regardless of the specifics raised by the Deputy, I have asked for the House's co-operation on this. We are going to have to respond to this issue, not case by case or village by village, but on a whole-of-government basis. I hope to bring, with my colleague, the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, by the end of the year a memorandum to the Government which will detail where we are with the roll-out of CFRAM and where I believe we need to get to.

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