Meetings with engineers and environmental teams will take place this week on the South Galway Flood Relief Scheme.
The environmental assessments are currently being undertaken, and discussions with National Parks and Wildlife Services have been ongoing for around two years
Loughrea Gort/Kinvara area councillors have invited OPW Minister Kevin 'Boxer' Moran to meet with locals, to provide a meaningful update.
Raising the matter in the Dáil with the OPW Minister, Galway East Sinn Féin TD Louis O'Hara says a clear timeline is needed