James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to add to the comments that have been made by Deputy Buckley in relation to the ongoing works. I want to acknowledge the assistance of the Minister of State and his Department. It has been very helpful to all three Dáil colleagues who are here with us in the Chamber: myself, Deputy Stanton and Deputy Buckley. In the limited time I have, I want to raise the need to progress the other areas that were put forward during Storm Babet as having a high risk of flooding. In particular, we need to see schemes progressing in Castlemartyr and Mogeely. I am also conscious of Ladysbridge, Cloyne and Rathcormack. We need to see further work being done to prevent flooding in those locations in the future, particularly in the case of Rathcormack and Castlemartyr. We know there are schemes in tranche 2 of the Department's catchment flood risk assessment and management programme, CFRAM, protocol and I want to see if there is anything we can do, as Oireachtas Members for the constituency of Cork East, to speed that up.

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