Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6 - Expenditure under a Maintenance Contract
2019 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works

4:30 pm

Mr. John Sydenham:

I can set out the context. The catchment flood risk assessment and management programme involved an extensive analysis of flood risk countrywide. The programme identified 300 communities at risk of flooding. It identified solutions to deal with 95% of properties potentially at risk from flooding. This was referred to earlier in terms of the €1 billion investment programme over a ten-year period. That is the context in which we are working.

We identified and prioritised 115 discrete schemes, of which approximately 80 are at the design and development stage. We will forward the detail Deputy Devlin has looked for in due course.