Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The figure has increased, therefore, from €9.5 million to €50 million. Those 940 properties include the area in which I live, Claddagh, but also a lot of other areas such as Long Walk, Spanish Arch and the Eglington Canal. As long as I have been asking this question for the past two or three years, those projects have all been included. The Minister of State's predecessor, Deputy O'Donovan, who was very au fait with this, as I am sure the Minister of State will soon be as well, expressed frustration at the lack of progress on the scheme. There have been five different phases and we are at stage 1, the options assessment. Construction in Galway was to start in 2026. Now, not even a planning application will be put in until 2027. We are flooded practically every year. I cannot understand what the delay is. It has been more than three years. I was a member of the council when the CFRAM maps were being created. That process started in 2012, and we knew then that it was not being planned for properly.

I am out of time, so I will follow up in a moment.

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