The OPW is wasting money on flood defences unless rivers are cleaned out first say Laois councillors. Cllr Ben Brennan said building flood defences was “putting the cart before the horse”. “I feel a lot of money is being wasted on surveys. In our area it is very high risk, but I see nothing being done. We should dredge the Barrow and the Suir. The water has nowhere to go. It mightn’t cost as much as repairing roads and building barriers,” he said…
Leinster Express, 08/10/16. Read the full article ‘Dredging, not barriers, needed‘.
