Dara Murphy (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Before the Joint Committee on Finance and the Public Service, the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners referred to houses at risk of flooding and, more specifically, to insurance cover. The Minister and other Deputies referred to this also. As the Minister will be aware, significant work is planned and ongoing with regard to flood prevention measures. While he indicated that the circumstances of houses whose values may be reduced by virtue of their occupants not having insurance or their living in a flood-risk area may be taken into account, will he clarify that if flood-prevention measures are put in place in some years, thus increasing house values, the former flood risk and lack of insurance availability will be taken into account?

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