Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State and look forward to him coming to visit Limerick. He is more than welcome. This is very important to us. There has been an extensive consultation process and in one location, Castleconnell village, there was a need for a second consultation because of risk of flooding. The OPW did the further consultation and I expect it will be rectified. People are worried about another severe rainfall as they know the areas of Corbally, Castleconnell, Montpelier, Annacotty, Mountshannon road, as well as further into Clare with the likes of Clonard, will be flooded. The only way this can be arrested is if we get flood defences in place. I very much welcome that. I expect that any submissions from Limerick city and council to go with the design projects would give priority to the areas I spoke about for flood defences. I hope that will happen under the CFRAM study.