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22nd October 2023
03:32pm BST

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Last week, the 82-year-old also seemed to criticise the government's policy regarding the flooding in Cork, saying that the protections in place were "insufficient". “I think it is very important to realise from a Government policy point of view, and no doubt Government is considering this, whatever protections they had were insufficient. We are now in circumstances where the consequences of climate change are ones that are going to be visited on us again and again. "People who spent all of their lives looking after their house and looking after their neighbours - and they are just devastated." A spokesperson for the President said Mr Higgins was not criticising Government policy but the actual flood defences themselves.President Michael D Higgins has strongly criticised the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for comments on the Middle East conflict which she made on a visit to Israel last Friday | Read more: https://t.co/4j0fzMs5kb pic.twitter.com/Pi29Ib1DzM
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