Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-18
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Duncan Smith (LAB), Dublin Fingal

I come to the Tánaiste with a serious request that he work with Ministers in the Department of the Environment, Local Government and Heritage and the Office of Public Works, in tandem with Fingal County Council, to provide further emergency coastal protection measures on Brook Beach in Portrane. There is a long-term solution for sea groynes to protect the houses and community there but it has not even gone to planning permission. We are at a critical stage, with houses on Healy's Lane, Beach Lane and the Burrow in danger of falling into the sea. We have already lost homes there. This is not my assessment but the assessment of the professionals in Fingal County Council. Will the Tánaiste help the families - the Duffys, the Bartons, the Shevlins and all the others - and community by instructing Ministers to act with haste to provide coastal protection measures at this location? I have raised this before but it is a critical emergency right now.

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Sitting date: 2024-04-18