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

A number of elected representatives in the area met the farmers. One of the fears I brought to the Minister's attention was that there is a huge amount of damage done regarding fodder and fertiliser, and damage done to land. Farmers needed to carry out mitigation measures during the flooding and afterwards to allow them to relieve livestock. Some of the farmers' fear was that they had already put a serious amount of money into this. They wanted to make sure this would be covered under the scheme, combined with any other works that still remain to be done to bring back the land to its original state. Antóin Watters, Fiona Mhic Choncoille and I will be working on making sure we mitigate as best we can in relation to what can happen into the future.

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