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    Il governo non può “agitare la bacchetta magica e fornire” aiuti per le inondazioni, dice Taoiseach

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    3. Fluffy-Republic8610 on

      Yes, these floods, having never happened before, can’t be magically fixed. It’s like the housing crisis, which appeared on the scene last year out of nowhere, couldn’t have been anticipated.

    4. pixelburp on

      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.

    5. chilloutus on

      They can definitely hand wave away responsibility though 

    7. OldVillageNuaGuitar on

      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?

    11. FlukyS on

      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

    12. NocturneFogg on

      Some of the ‘magic wand would have required things like not building on flood plains and adequately planning and implementing surface water drainage and other things that are usually unpopular with their political supporters.

      There are a mixture of issues about climate change driving more rain fall, bad planning and lack of infrastructure to deal with any of that and the never ending inertia around projects like these.

    13. Jacques-de-lad on

      How many years now have the floods been happening? Same as the housing issue which has been going on for over a decade, but ‘it can’t be fixed overnight.’

    14. throughthehills2 on

      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.

    15. AtraVenator on

      It seems to me that we they really aren’t capable to much … they cannot build house overnight, can’t organise food relief. What can they do then do all the taxes we pay them?

    16. VoodooJack1 on

      If it isn’t the governments job to fix issues for its citizens. Then maybe it’s time to have a new government

    17. Worldly_Sort8727 on

      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.

    19. qwerty_1965 on

      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.

    20. danny275 on

      Do Fianna Fail and Fianna Gael believe you can only fix things via magic wand?

    21. mysevenyearitch on

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

    23. StanleyWhisper on

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

    24. South_Hedgehog_7564 on

      They don’t need a wand they need to have the country’s money working for the country. Not for themselves.

    25. GrimJimmy94 on

      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.

    26. WickerMan111 on

      That’s the reality of the situation, in fairness. We can’t just stop the rain from falling.

    27. Apprehensive_Ratio80 on

      Seeing a lot of people throwing dogs at Martin for not having an actual magic wand lads can we come back down to earth please!!!

      There’s plenty of other legit reasons to call that fella all sorts of names and not a single one of them good 🤣

      But how do we fix this?
      Should every single county do some kind of assessment of areas that regularly flood or those that may potentially flood and provide this to the government to request funding to get ahead of these events? Or does this already happen consistently??

      I don’t agree that the government would have to address every single flood relief scheme right away because we’re talking billions probably more than 10 billion needed for something like that. However, there are other ways around it. I’m not sure exactly what we could do, but just a thorough assessment of all new build estates and towns to make sure that we’re not accelerating water flowing into rivers increasing their height into areas that don’t have the capacity to move water out during high tide events 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe planting of more absorbent trees or bushes to help slow down flooding.

      Certainly getting insurance right for towns that have a high likelihood of experiencing flooding as many insurers haven’t avoided towns like this in the past and those towns have had to protest that governments to get recognition

    28. CitizenErasedII on

      In fairness, they can’t wave magic wand and deliver anything.
      Look at our hospital wait times.
      The housing crisis etc

      All clearly came out of the blue. We’ve never even *had* rain in this country before.

    29. PK-Mittenspy2703 on

      Gotta give them credit. At least they’re not even trying to hide their hatred for regular people anymore.

    30. Joelad2k17 on

      In the past couple of months they’ve given Ukraine 150m so im sure they can buy some food packages and use the army

    31. Arrays-Start-at-1 on

      Oh my god why would you even say that. You’re supposed to make people hopeful not discouraged.

    32. MajorGreenhorn on

      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

    33. HarryEastwoods on

      Into the flood again
      Same old trip it was back then,
      So I made a big mistake
      Try to see it once my way

    34. grayparrot116 on

      It cannot or it will not?

      Because things are preventable. Even if those have not happened before (which they have).

      The problem is that when you neglect existing infrastructure and delay new one, you are at risk.

      And this government, and all the previous FF and FG ones, love doing that.

    35. jeperty on

      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.

    37. phoenixhunter on

      “government admits it is unable/unwilling to provide basic infrastructure to keep its citizens safe from predictable weather events”

      these people are actually dangerous to irish society. you know they are. 

    38. -SideshowBlob- on

      Just like the houses from over a decade ago? What about the last dozen times towns were ruined by floods? That’s been happening for long time. They couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery ffs.

    39. No-Outside6067 on

      They can provide hundreds of millions to Ukraine to rebuild their infrastructure but nothing to build our own

    40. AhhhSureThisIsIt on

      If only they were warned multiple times for the past few decades.

    41. InflationSquare on

      There’s no magic wand, you can’t build houses overnight, there isn’t even a magic money tree. The government is apparently junior partner to the “market” that dictates what can and can’t happen, which coincidentally is also an abstract force of nature and of course doesn’t exist at least in part within the legislative framework that they themselves control. What utter neoliberal wank that they just wash their hands of political failure because “sure what could we have done anyway, we’re only the government”

    42. cacamilis22 on

      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.

    43. JohnDempsy on

      It might be easier at this point if sir could just tell us what the fuck he can actually deliver..

    44. StrongCelery on

      They can reform planning so as something can be done in a reasonable time. They can also make funding available to those who have no insurance as none is available to them. Typical Mehole response pure BS.

    45. Diligent-Ad4777 on

      Govt cannot ~~’wave magic wand and~~ deliver ~~flood relief, says Taoiseach~~

    46. Rich_Macaroon_ on

      Well I’m glad they know that now as it looks like they’ve only been waving a posturing wand for the last 15 years. Implementation deficit disorder strikes again.

    47. DannyVandal on

      Even if they could, they’d still manage to fuck it up.

    49. Valuable_Employee_88 on

      But yet they can wave a magic wand and come up with millions of €€€ to send to Ukraine.

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