Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 November 2025
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary)
2:00 am
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
I certainly believe it will be enough to cover damage arising from Storm Éowyn. We also open up other programmes. For example, there was flooding in various counties last week as a result of Storm Claudia. The humanitarian assistance scheme opened up and the Cabinet decided to open up the Red Cross scheme for businesses through the Department of enterprise. The programme for Government commits to moving towards allowing these schemes to be globally opened immediately when necessary because some of them are quite cumbersome to open, even though they need to open immediately. We are satisfied that enough funding has been provided. If there is another storm and additional funding is needed, we will provide that funding.
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