Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion

12:00 pm

Mr. Lawrence Owens:

Anybody can look at the plan of a project and pick holes in it or take the view, from a blueprint point of view, that it will not be effective and will not deliver within the compass of what in their view would be suitable for a city or location. We believe that is unreasonable and unfair. It certainly does not reflect well on the competency and standard of work carried out previously by the OPW. It is a very invidious position that the insurance industry have taken up.