Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Property Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) with Office of Public Works

2:30 pm

Mr. Tony Smyth:

We deal with all the stakeholders and we have dealt with the farmers, ESB and Waterways Ireland as stakeholders in the CFRAM process. That work is our examination of the flood risks on each river in the country and their concerns will be inputted into that and we will have to see what comes out.

With regard to the Met Éireann warnings, I do not know why they would have changed if they had been issuing those. ESB issues water level warnings to local authorities and, again, I do not know if that has changed over the past few months. I have not heard that it has.