Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I have been contacted by people who say they cannot get home insurance because of flood risk, even where flood defences have been constructed. Is Mr. Bradley saying there is no issue there then, for any insurance companies? If there are flood defences constructed by the OPW, with a one-in-100-year, a one-in-200-year or a one-in-300-year event design capability and they are signed off on, insurance companies will provide home and business insurance in all those cases. Is that correct?