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
Mr. Jer Buckley:
That is not taken into account at all by insurance companies. They also have a massive plus here. In line with an EU directive from 2007, this country has completed a nationwide study of every community that is at risk of flooding. More than 300 communities have been graded under the CFRAM study. Unfortunately, the insurance industry has taken a very cynical approach to the hard work that has been done by the OPW. It has used the memorandum of understanding under which information is exchanged to geocode areas in that study. I think that is a very cynical approach. I would prefer the industry to take a more open and positive approach.
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