Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister of State answered some of this question earlier on but I welcome the opportunity to tease things out. There are five stages. This was all set out to me over the years. On stage one, the options assessment began in late 2020. Then it will move up to stage five for handover in 2029. Where are we at in that process? I welcome that Storm Debi has been taken into account but we had a huge flood in 2018. People in the Claddagh and everywhere were affected. In addition, Oranmore and Clarinbridge were affected. At what stage will we take a more expansive approach to this? Storms are coming practically every year - certainly in 2018 it was huge - and in between we had storms going back to 2009 and people in the Claddagh were flooded out of it. If we wait every year for each storm at what stage will the delays stop? Will we have a roll-out? Does the Minister of State have dates for me?

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