Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have 100 days from the time of the storm to make an application to the solidarity fund. Given that the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is the lead Department, it will make the application on behalf of the Government given the scale of the storm. After the last major storm event only €13 million was drawn down out of a scale of damages worth more than €150 million to €200 million. It is difficult to obtain this because one of the factors that militates against a bigger drawdown is the total level of economic damage that was caused within the framework of the solidarity fund. The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is examining that and when the full detail of the scale is known by the local authorities, it will decide that.

Last year, there were 58 minor flood works. I will get the Deputy the Kerry list later. A minor flood work application is up to €500,000. The local authority applies to us. It is a small-scale piece of work. We turn it around quickly. We have a cost-benefit model and if the benefit is merited, we grant it and the local authority contracts the work locally. We will get the breakdown of the €65 million. I think it may have been €23 million.