Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent)
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Throughout the country we have a problem with flooding and many of the properties Cork City Council has acquired under CPO are within a flood plain. There is an issue with the accuracy of the flood plain maps at the moment. I had one myself this morning in Limerick where they actually had put in properties on a flood plain. We went away and we got it researched and found out that the maps were inaccurate. Many of the flood plain maps are inaccurate at the moment. Some of them are inaccurate from the levels they are taken. They are only taken on a basic map system. I would be interested to know how much money is being put into properties at the moment under flood zone A? They are actually stopping people building any houses at the moment under flood zone B in other counties. How many of the Cork City Council houses are under group A? I would be interested in finding out especially when it is good taxpayers' money going into building these houses. On the one hand, they are saying that these houses on a flood plain can be done up and on the other hand they are telling us that we cannot even do it in flood zone B which would only flood every 100 years. If Ms Doherty can give that information back to the board, it would be-----