Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that and welcome any flexibility there can be that would benefit Louth and particularly the Cooley Peninsula and the huge damage done. Louth County Council has done some short-term mitigation works. It has an application in at this point for €260,000. As regards the Department of Transport, there is an ask in of €1.6 million because of the huge damage that was done to the local road infrastructure and there are wider works that need to be done in mitigation and drainage, and that is before we even talk about the works that need to be done by Uisce Éireann and others in fixing the drainage system in Dundalk. The list needs to be looked at from the point of view of roads that are in a really bad state or, as I say, lanes for which people might not necessarily have looked for it otherwise. I am sure the Minister has heard as well that farmers in north County Louth are also looking for some sort of funding scheme for the damage they have to deal with-----

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