A Laois business manager says we should bite the bullet and pay the EU fines.
Ireland must change its strategy for dealing with flooding, according to a Laois businessman.
Hundreds of acres of farmland in midlands lie underwater, with further rain forecast over the next 24 hours, and the Defence Forces are being deployed to help out.
Chair of the Mountmellick Development Association, Paddy Buggy, also says rivers causing problems need to be dredged and the government should accept any EU fine for doing so.
President Michael D. Higgins signed the EU habitats directive into law back as a government minister in 1997, making it more difficult to gain permission for dredging.
Mr. Buggy says this is something that needs to be looked at:
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