John Gilroy (Labour)

Yes, I have said that there are more important things than the sensitivities of Fianna Fáil.

I want to support Senator Clune's call for joined-up thinking and a strategic response to the flooding in County Cork. I know that in Glanmire there are over 50 homes which are very badly damaged, so that they are temporarily uninhabitable and residents have had to move out of their homes. Disturbing reports from Glanmire are reaching me in the past couple of days about the heavy handed tactics of insurance companies who are putting what I consider to be, undue pressure on and causing undue alarm and anxiety to people who are already distressed. I ask the Leader to facilitate, if he could do so, some sort of communication between this House and the insurance companies, perhaps through the offices of the relevant Minister. The actions of the insurance companies in this regard are particularly heinous, adding further distress to a very distressful situation.