‘Victims may never return to homes’

THOUSANDS of people flooded out of their homes in the Republic may never return, it was claimed last night.

‘Victims may never return to homes’

Junior minister Martin Mansergh, who oversees the Office of Public Works, said resettlement may be their only alternative following the devastation caused by the heaviest rain on record.

“I think relocation is inevitable in the case of some homes,” the minister said.

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