Clare County Council and other state agencies have been urged to step up their efforts to help Clare farmers who saw their lands hit by flooding at the beginning of this year.
Farmers were one of the hardest-hit groups here in the storms of January and February, and some are now taking action in a bid to avoid a repeat.
Hundreds of acres of farmland in areas including Kildysart, Ballynacally, Loop Head and Doonbeg were submerged under water at the beginning of this year, when storms battered the county's coast.
In many cases, land was flooded after embankments were breached, and some have expressed anger at the slow pace of repairs.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney visited Clare in the aftermath of the bad weather, and was back in the county yesterday for an event honouring John P Holland in Liscannor.
There, he told Clare FM that the government is looking to help those who need it.
One farming representative, who said that farmers were abandoned in the aftermath of the storms, is now calling on the Council to ensure they are helped.
The IFA's Rural Development Chairman in Clare, Seamus Murphy, says farmers in some areas have paid for an engineer's report which will outline repair works that are required.
The Ballynacally farmer now wants the local authority, and other government agencies, to ensure this document is acted on before the bad weather returns.
