Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

11:00 am

Photo of Sean BarrettSean Barrett (Independent)

On the matter raised by our colleague, Senator Conway, it is time to bring back the snag man for both individual purchases of buildings and housing and where the State purchases properties on behalf of individuals. Most builders hate the snag man but he does a valuable service for the consumer which has been missed.

I thank the Taoiseach for his intervention in an issue we raised here yesterday, namely, the 9 foot high sea wall in Clontarf. The Taoiseach said in the Dáil that it is visually appealing for people to be able to see the bay and to have a levee of that scale would cause people to feel rightly aggrieved. He called for compromise on the issue but as I stated yesterday, the compromise exists in that those who travel the coast road from Dublin to Howth are aware that after the Clontarf wooden bridge there is an area of mudflats, which is a ready made reservoir for the water which now floods Clontarf and cannot get out the mouth of the harbour between the two lighthouses when the tide is coming in. It requires Dublin Corporation to breach a causeway to allow the water to flow out. There is approximately four or five miles of capacity to take the water that now floods Clontarf. The late Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus raised this issue many times and it has now come back as a live issue. I ask the Leader to thank the Taoiseach for his helpful intervention and press the alternative Sutton Creek proposal to relieve that flooding on the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan.

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