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‹ Ceisteanna — Questions Oral Answers. - Local Authority Financing. Flooding and local drainage funding
Summary
Shatter blamed inadequate funding for drainage work for recent flooding in Munster and Cork; the Ceann Comhairle ruled it a separate matter.
Will the Minister not acknowledge that local authorities have so little finance that basic drainage work, such as would have prevented the type of flooding that was seen in Munster and particularly in Cork during the course of the last few days, is not being carried out and that the flooding that we have seen there is the direct result of his Government's policy and failure to provide basic funding to local authorities?
