Seanad debates
Wednesday, 15 October 2003
Adjournment Matters. - Landslide Relief.
Gradually, based on the geologists' reports, families began to return, depending on whether their dwellings were categorised as low or medium risk. Eight families cannot return because their houses are deemed to be high risk. Another four houses were under construction at the time of the landslide and are all deemed to be in the high risk zone. As of now, it looks as though these houses will never be safely habitable again. Many of the houses to which people have returned were very badly damaged. I visited the scene with my party leader, Deputy Kenny, Deputy Ring, Joe McCartan MEP and Councillor Gerry Coyle. Substantial repairs and reconstruction will be necessary in these cases and in the case of the 12 high risk houses there is the prospect of relocation.
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