Die Regierung kann nicht „mit Zauberstab schwenken und Hochwasserhilfe leisten“, sagt Taoiseach

maybe if he pulled it out of his arse

In fairness Taoiseach, I’m not under the belief this government has the ability to deliver mundane requirements let alone emergency ones. Or indeed, the interest to try.

Maybe if we we can label the problem as something threatening data centres they’ll jump to it.

In fairness the government has been talking a big game about using legislation to fast track or protect vital infrastructure from legal challenge. It’s been mentioned for a number of schemes like Metrolink or the Dublin Airport cap.

Yet they continue not to actually do it. If you won’t do it for Metrolink, or Dart+ or Cork Luas, or the [Greater Dublin Drainage Projects](https://www.water.ie/projects/local-projects/greater-dublin-drainage) or flood relief schemes… then just why are you talking about it at all? If not these sorts of projects, what could possibly merit such protection?

Between FF and FG it has been 100 years of running the country, you could have had everyone born since the state was founded put down 5 bricks and you’d have the Great Wall of Ireland by now

These houses will flood again and again. Eventually they’ll have to copy the Welsh government – [buy and demolish properties](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/02/south-wales-council-buy-demolish-homes-flooding-clydach-terrace-ynysybwl) that they cannot defend from floods.

These flood events will only get more extreme with climate change and it’s not realistic to keep paying people to live in flood risk areas. James Brown the Wexford TD said that the real solution is flood payments. There’s a radio silence on nature based solutions that slow the water’s route from uplands down to rivers but the government would never be able to handle a holistic solution like that. Just keep paying until the money runs out.

The Taoiseach has been in cabinet since 1997. There were massive floods in Enniscorthy in the year 2000 and again a few weeks ago. He is part of the problem and he has to claim personal responsibility for the lack of flood defences for that town as either a cabinet Minister, Leader of the opposition or as Taoiseach.

No one is asking for a magic wand, they are asking to be taken seriously and work begun.

I hope the citizens of Enniscorthy were suitably unimpressed by this lll judged media opportunity.

Give them a break, they’ve tried nothing and they’re all out of ideas

Just like they don’t have a magic wand to fix the housing crisis or so they say to hide their incompetence

I’m throughly looking forward to them blaming Poseidon for causing this. The met Eireann one was a bold strategy but fuck it why not the ancient god of the seas.

Just do one thing correctly….just one

Public transportation

Housing

Health

Cost of living

Heating ffs (highest in Europe)

Mental health

Government spending

ANYTHING!!

What drives me mental is FG/FF have been in power through out the history of the state so this horseshit of waving a magic wand is bollox, they don’t plan past 4 year cycles so impossible to get shot done

The Wexford people put up an article with a great timeline of the flood defences for Enniscorthy. It’s funny seeing the same names who are currently in government, making the promises 10 years ago that the flooding will be solved and it’s a priority to them, and anyone who says otherwise is targeting cheap political points.

This guy is a waste of space and so are his colleagues. But no the dumb mother fuckers in this country keep voting them in every time.

It is so frustrating how patronising Michael Martin is to the public.