Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
9:30 am
Mr. Jim Casey:
To deal with that directly, one of the difficulties with Midleton, which is probably unique in this respect, is that it is at risk from all four different sources of flooding, namely, tidal flooding, river flooding, groundwater flooding and surface water or pluvial flooding. Much of the data and information that was needed to design a scheme to protect against those four sources of flooding did not exist. We had to deploy infrastructure gauges and monitoring equipment to generate that information to inform the detailed design of a scheme. It took a lot of time to provide that. Also, we have a changing regulatory environment-----
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