Right on cue comes the Cork defence.
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If only it was a flood defence.
Iāve no issue with them being bailed out, but surely they should be moved now or flood defences started immediately. Otherwise weāll be paying them again next year
Or could we at least ask the UK to fund them?
Well we are funding casement park for them up North, the least they could do is chip for their little Southern enclave
Itās a pity they werenāt similar to the cagey Limerick merchants of yesteryear and put their central business district a half a mile in from the river
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The fellas in Cork feel more part of the Union than the lads up there.
There should be no one in Midleton left short and they should be compensated to the fullest extent possible.
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There are loads of people all over the country with justifiable gripes about things - no more so than in the health service where they are fought tooth and nail by the state.
That said I donāt have a big problem with the Midleton folk getting some relief but the jump from 5k to 20k and then to 100k is questionable in my view.
Youād swear there was an election on the horizon.
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Phase two
Midleton is a thriving town, a central hub for all of East Cork, it is in the governments best interest to get the town back up and running as it generates employment and revenue. You couldnāt get parking in the town during the day or on a Saturday, the busiest small town in Ireland Iād hazard a guess
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Whatās your issue exactly, why is this in the āthings that are wrongā thread?
Should these businesses be abandoned by the government, all the employees etc
Again, nobody will profit from this, itās hilarious that youād have a problem because of the county, as I said I hope that the people of Wexford and Waterford donāt have to deal with similar begrudgery
I propose we divert all Govt funding from Leitrim to Cork immediately.
Good one!
Banty, Banty will profit from this.
Lowballing them at 5k in the direct aftermath is the real issue here. Iād say having seen the extent of the damage enforced the decision
Alot of the buildings will need to be knocked and rebuilt. Once water gets to that height, it makes the building structurally unsound and need to be razed.
100k will only go some of the way in those instances
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A lot of the buildings are very, very old too
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I think youāre going pretty hard on this. Itās a reasonable question to raise and debate to be had. Maybe separating it away from the latest case makes it easier.
The notion that the government should underwrite pretty much any large loss in the state, be it Pyrite/floods/apartment fire protection etc seems likely to run us into significant trouble over time.
Itās possibly even worse if governments have a pick and choose mentality - largely based upon political pressure.
At the same time you have the individual hard cases which deserve a lot of sympathy and in many cases need some sort of support.
I suppose Iām saying that to my mind itās not the black and white issue that would justify you getting so outraged about any sort of questioning.
What made you think he objected cos of the county? Thereās no reference at all to it?