Manus Boyle (Fine Gael)

Today I want to raise a problem I raised on one of the first days I came into this House - coastal erosion. Donegal has 2,400 km of coastline. There is one particular place in Inver village, County Donegal, where two houses are very badly affected. With storms getting worse and worse in the last couple of years, these two houses are in serious danger. Baskets of stones were put there 40 years ago and they have done well, but this coast is 95 m long and we need to protect these two houses. I am getting no answers, so I would like to see if the Leader could get answers. Is funding available through Donegal County Council to do this work? When is this work going to start? What is the delay on it? At the end of the day, there are children in these two houses. When you see big waves crashing into their garden and hitting their front windows, it is really scary for them. As a matter of urgency, we need to get something done here to protect these two houses and the families in them especially.