Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will not waste my time in describing what happened last week. Images and videos shared across social media depicted exactly what happened. I will highlight the difficulties around Glashaboy in particular, where a flood relief scheme has just commenced in my home town of Glanmire, as well as in Blackpool, where there has been a persistent hold-up in relation to the flood relief scheme.

The Glashaboy scheme in Glanmire is a 32-month contract and we are only four months into it. Many of the areas flooded along the Glashaboy river will be the last areas raised and those works will come towards the end of the scheme. I ask the Minister of State to relay to the Office of Public Works and Department that they need to analyse the scheme as it is and front-load any mitigation measures they can take in the worst affected areas, such as Copper Valley Vue estate, the new line road in Glantane and Factory Hill in Glanmire. They need to prioritise those worst affected areas. Given what we experienced last week, people cannot wait two years for the scheme to get to those areas.

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