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

I propose to take Questions Nos. 6, 25 and 44 together.

I am pleased to provide an update on the progression of the Glashaboy flood relief scheme at Glanmire-Sallybrook in Cork. I am advised that the scheme is being progressed by Cork City Council. The OPW and the council are is engaging proactively to progress the flood relief scheme for Glanmire.

The Glashaboy flood relief scheme was confirmed in January 2021 by the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform under the Arterial Drainage Acts 1945 to 1995 and is being funded from the €1.3 billion in flood relief measures under the national development plan to 2030, and as part of Project Ireland 2040. The scheme will provide protection to some 103 properties; 78 residential and 25 commercial. It will address the flood risk in a number of locations in the area and will include defences such as walls and embankments, culvert upgrades, channel widening and road regrading. An invitation to tender for the civil works contract was issued on 23 January 2023 with a return date of 13 March 2023. Tenders have now been returned and the process of assessment is under way. Cork City Council intend to award the contract in quarter 2 of this year to allow construction works to commence in the middle of this year.

See this speech in context