Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Earlier this year, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, came to Springfield, County Clare to open the Clonlara flood defence system, for which we had campaigned for more than a decade. We are grateful to him and to his Department. The people in Midleton and elsewhere in Cork who have endured this awful flooding in the past week should be aware that the flood defences planned for our community took many years to deliver, not because of local objections, but because of a man. I will name him. This is a fact. Peter Sweetman of The Swans and The Snails Limited, who is based here in Dublin-----

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