David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his response and am pleased to hear a decision regarding the planning option will be made in the coming weeks. This is an enormous scheme involving more than 80 landowners, costing more than €50 million and counting. The cost to the people, businesses and homes is much more, emotionally as well. When that happens, your home or business is destroyed and everything you have is gone. Some people could not get insurance. Some were underinsured, which I ask the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, to look at. They were insured to a certain level but the devastation went way beyond that and they were not eligible for the Red Cross funding, which is another issue.

I ask the Minister of State and his officials to meet with council officials as soon as possible and drive on the planning application so it is lodged, giving people some comfort, and to do all he can to get this thing moving. We are worried in case there are challenges to it and it could take forever in the courts. It would be devastating if this happened again.

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