Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2018
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised)
10:00 am
Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I hear the Chairman's view on this matter. I have come across similar situations in a number of areas. I am looking at individual home protection. The Chairman can imagine all that has happened in the eight months since I took up my role. This is an area on which I wish to focus. We have people whose properties have been flooded and finding an engineering solution is key. Such a solution can be found to protect a number of properties but incidents such as the Chairman has mentioned would require the help of an individual home protection scheme. I am in favour of such a scheme and I am looking at helping people to get individual protection.
I say that with great interest because I know many people who it affects. With regard to the house relocation scheme, there are many people who do not want to relocate; they want to find a solution. It is something I am working on but it will be later in the year before I will be able to come back to the committee on it.
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