Junior Minister Simon Harris will visit Clare later today to meet local representatives to discuss flood and local heritage issues.
He will visit Quilty at 1.45pm to hear of and speak with people whose property was destroyed by the floods of January and February, 2014.
Later in the afternoon, at 4.30pm, he will travel to Mooghaun Hillfort in Newmarket-on-Fergus to view developments at the site.
Mr Harris, the youngest member of the current Dáil, is the Minister of State at the Departments of Finance PER and Taoiseach with Special Responsibility for the OPW, Public Procurement, and International Banking (incl IFSC).
A native of Ennis, Colin McGann has been editor of The Clare Champion since August 2020. Former editor of The Clare People, he is a journalism and communications graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology.