Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 September 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
2:00 pm
Ms Clare McGrath:
If I am understanding Deputy Fleming correctly, we have taken account of climate change in the 300 areas we are looking at. That is included in what we are doing in our development of what are considered based on previous work the 300 areas of greatest risk, which are largely urban but which include 90 coastal areas. We are very much guided by where we will get the greatest minimum of damage and the greatest benefit. That is what is predicating the work on the flood risk management side.