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

Photo of Seán SherlockSeán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Thompson spoke about protocols for deployment. To what extent are Insurance Ireland and its constituent members drilling down into the deployment protocols in respect of pending or rising flood waters? Take, for example, the Blackwater flows through Mallow and Fermoy, where there are demountable defences. To what extent have Insurance Ireland's constituent members seen at first hand or examined the protocols which exist in respect of those two towns' defences?

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