John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

Yes. I can assure the Deputy that that will happen. The reports have been circulated to the relevant sections of my Department for consideration and any action that may be required. The reports were also sent to the Department of Transport, which has responsibility at central government level for national and non-national roads and also to the Office of Public Works, which is the lead Government agency for the implementation of the national flood policy in the matter of flood risk and mitigation. It is important that when we consider all of the reports, the one Deputy Lynch would be most familiar with is the one from Cork, that we focus on the areas that proved to be vulnerable on that occasion. As the Deputy is aware, areas flooded that had never flooded previously. We have to take that into account for future emergency planning and write it into the equation. All of that is being done. We are carrying out a full assessment of what occurred during the floods. All of that information will be fed into the assessment so that we can learn valuable lessons from the experience.

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