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

Over two weeks ago we had a major flooding incident in Cork as well, around the city and in east Cork. I am lucky in that my home town of Glanmire has a flood relief scheme that just started. That did not mitigate the worst impacts of what happened but at least we have a scheme under way. Unfortunately, many other areas in Cork do not. The contractor on site in Glanmire is due to do works between July and September next year to coincide with certain fishing seasons and so on. The contractor is indicating that it would like to do that work in January, out of season, but that requires ministerial consent. I ask the Minister to go back to the relevant Minister, under inland fisheries, and to the Government and get that consent as urgently as possible. As I said, fortunately we have a scheme in place and we can do works and take active mitigation measures in the interim but many other areas are not as fortunate.

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