Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of the Flood Insurance Bill 2016
9:30 am
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witnesses for their presentations and Deputy Michael McGrath for bringing the Bill before us. If he was not bringing forward legislation, I would have done so because we have had a lot of experience of flooding in Mayo. I can identify with everything that has been said about the absence of flood insurance for businesses, particularly in the context of Crossmolina where we had the most recent flood event. Huge losses have been experienced and there is an ongoing refusal to provide flood insurance. Is there any improvement that can be made to the Bill from the perspective of witnesses? I will go to the witnesses one by one.
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