Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 July 2016

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 92 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Strategic Planning for Flood Risk Management

9:10 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

From the point of view of the public, that is a serious delay. It would be better if we could see a trail in support of the OPW's argument. I do not doubt that difficulties arose, but it would have been much better for public confidence if the OPW had gone back and the governance procedures in place had functioned. Why did the top departmental group not meet between 2009 and 2015, especially in the light of what people throughout the country have had to endure during every single season? There was no pattern to the storms. They happened in June and July, just as they happened in January and February. Why did the governance groups not meet? What has the OPW learned from their failure to meet? Whose fault was it that they did not meet?

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