Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Difficulties in Obtaining Home Insurance: Discussion with Irish Insurance Federation
2:55 pm
Mr. Michael Kemp:
I think there are probably two aspects to that. In an extreme case such as that, a person should not get a decision as bad as that. To some extent that is the purpose of our information service. That is the kind of issue a person can have reviewed and reassessed. On a more general basis, we need to get more accurate flood maps to establish not just the area relative to a watercourse or something like that but where the risk is taking into account the local topographical features. That is where we are now getting better information from the OPW, which will enable us to be more accurate in the future in dealing with those sorts of cases.
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