Seanad debates

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

10:30 am

Photo of Lorraine HigginsLorraine Higgins (Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----we will contribute to bigger flooding issues in the future. The situation is much the same with the River Clarin in Athenry which burst its banks for the same reason and destroyed several homes in the Caheroyan area.

While I have no intention of interfering with the planning process, I call for a little bit of reality to attach to proposals to deal with flooding in south Galway. We must focus on families who are going through extraordinary hardship at the moment and who will not be in their homes for Christmas because of environmental concerns. They are all very well and good but when one sees big companies throughout this country, elsewhere in Europe and around the world, which use a carrot and stick approach to off-set their pollution distribution, why can we not have the same for people living along rivers and let environmental considerations take second place? Not only would that help solve issues relating to flooding, it would also safeguard people's basic human right-----

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