Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have grasped the nettle and I reassure the Senator and the House that nobody will run around me for sure. Since I got involved in the project in Crossmolina, I have instigated the downstream cleaning of the river. It is going to happen as we told representatives last Monday. In fairness, the Senator must let that happen. I am not here to go into the technical issues and the type of machinery that should be used, but that is going to happen. I have made it happen.

Upstream is something we could talk about forever. Last Monday, however, I instigated that the four people involved would look at it and see what solution they can come up with. That is the best possible progress from Monday to the meeting today with all the people involved. That is as much as I am going to do until I see what emerges from that. Perhaps this matter might not need to have been tabled if we had waited until we saw the result of that.