Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Will the Taoiseach ensure that the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of Transport provide extra emergency funding to County Tipperary? Huge damage was done on Sunday evening in the Knockmealdown and Galtee mountain ranges, in the villages of Ballylooby, Burncourt and Ballyporeen and in Thurles town, where a huge number of houses and properties were flooded because of lack of infrastructure and poor infrastructure from Irish Water and others. The county council has expended its maintenance budget for this year. Will the Taoiseach ensure emergency funding is provided for those districts to ensure those householders will not suffer the same fate again? More bad weather has been forecast and it is just not fair on people. One particular building that flooded is a thatched-roofed pub that is currently closed. It was always insured but it cannot get insurance now. I also want to wish well one of the general services supervisors, Walter Doheny, who was out in the floods on Sunday night, who suffered a heart attack. I ask for funding to help the council.

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