Castletownbere

He says, "That'll give it a better chance to contain the rain." Barry, thank you for your call to Sean.

And then Michael in Castletownbere has been in touch on WhatsApp, and he says, "Mairead," referring to the Middleton flooding relief, "planning permission should not, uh, figure in this situation.

It should be a direct order from the government," Michael says.

He says, "Remember when parts of the Conor Pass over in Kerry collapsed?" And Michael says, "Dick Spring, the TD, gave the direct order to go ahead immediately.

And then people, um, once we got back onto our flight, you know, uh, and, uh, at, um, sort of 12 o'clock at night, 1:00 in the morning type thing, um, people were talking to each other.

And like, for instance, um, one, one of the p- uh, people who was, uh, traveling to, um, Allahes, they had a car there, and the woman who was going to Castletownbere had to turn her pickup round.

So they said, "We'll drop you off." Now, that is just brilliant, you know, the kindness there.

Yeah.

Trojan amount of work has gone into it by Minister Cummins and his team.

It will be a real shake-up in rural planning," said Councilor Caroline Cronin, and that has caused Current planning rules have caused so much heartache to people in West Cork, especially young couples and their families, and a lot of people would agree with that.

And Michael in Castletownbere says, "I sat with that large crowd of people, and I witnessed Minister John Cummins deliver the presentation on his new planning act, which he expects will become law early next year.

Some things," said Michael, "I've been waiting for for a long time.