I want to raise the ongoing works by Uisce Éireann or its agents at James Larkin Road. These works are causing severe disruption to residents of Raheny, Kilbarrack, Bayside, Howth and Sutton. Tailbacks on the road are a mile long and, most frustratingly, residents are seeing little or no activity on the site of the works. They regularly report to me that there is plant and equipment lying idle on the site and that these vehicles are parked along vast tracts of the James Larkin Road. Along with some of my Oireachtas colleagues, I put various suggestions to Uisce Éireann, including a tidal flow on the road, but nothing seems to have been accepted or worked on by the company. It is not acceptable that residents in the areas to which I refer are being completely held to ransom by contractors that do not seem to be working with any sense of urgency or of the inconvenience they are causing to the very people who are funding their activities. We all accept that the works are necessary, but Uisce Éireann needs to react.

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