Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am reassured by what the Tánaiste said. What we need is a reassurance that we learn lessons from this storm. There needs to be the three corridors. We need Uisce Éireann and our local group water schemes to be generator ready. The three corridors issue might be a bit more complicated to solve, but it has to be solved in the national interest, when 700,000 households were without electricity, some of them for almost three weeks. In that context, people need to be reassured that every asset of the State is put into play when we are under pressure with an emergency that struck the west coast in particular.

In retrospect, perhaps we should have called a state of emergency and utilised all those assets. Again, it is easy in retrospect to say that. However, we need to learn the lessons from this storm.

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