Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It was almost a year ago that my community experienced those devastating floods, particularly in Llandilo, Castlereagh, Londonderry and Agnes Banks. There were families there who lost everything in their homes. I took the Prime Minister there to see the devastation in person. This is why I really welcome the investment from the Morrison government, along the New South Wales government, of $33 million in funding to identify more than 100 infrastructure improvements to boost the resilience of the flood evacuation network in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. This project will provide a plan of works to improve flood evacuation such as road widening, bridge structures, road raising, pinch point upgrades and drainage improvements.

I look forward to these upgrades and initiatives being rolled out as quickly as possible. As I said, there were a number of families quite devastated by those one-in-50-year floods. It's something that we don't want to happen again. This is one measure to address those serious issues as they impact our community. We are a community who love our Nepean River, with homes built quite close. Seeing that in person, up close, was hard to handle for a lot of people in our community. So I look forward to these upgrades, worth $33 million, getting started as quickly as possible.

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