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

I know the website has not been updated. It is an issue my officials have brought to the attention of Galway City Council. As the level of the scheme is now greater than it was originally, primarily due to over-topping due to tidal effects, I have asked the city council to meet all the public representatives concerned, councillors and Oireachtas Members. By that stage, the council will have been given the most up-to-date information from the steering group. The meeting is to apprise everyone of what actually happened the last night the city centre flooded, because it is important to do so.

Last week, I met representatives of Galway City Council and a number of other local authorities in the Department. It is important that elected representatives are shown what happened on the night and the response to that event and that they see that the scheme, as originally envisaged, did not take into consideration the level of over-topping that is now being confronted in that part of the west. I hope everyone will agree that, knowing the scale and violence of the Atlantic storms that have hit Galway, including Oranmore in the Deputy’s constituency, and the damage they have done, we must incorporate changes before it is too late.

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