Flood Risk Management
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-11
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Ciarán Cannon (FG), Galway East

In the context of general flood relief schemes nationally, another scheme the Minister of State is more than aware of and has been exceptionally supportive of is the south Galway Gort lowlands flood relief scheme. The scheme is encountering a major problem because Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, constructed a motorway right through the heart of the region affected and did not build sufficient capacity into the culverts under the motorway. That now has the potential to derail the whole process. The costs associated with remedying this problem with the motorway will become part of the issue for the overall cost-benefit analysis. I therefore encourage the Minister of State and his officials to engage directly with TII to have this issue resolved and to ensure TII accepts full responsibility for the lack of capacity in these culverts and covers the cost of making them sufficiently large so as not to cause flooding in the region.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-11