Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 307: To ask the Minister for Transport the arrangements that have been made to have emergency management plans in place for each of the following extreme weather patterns in each of the main cities and in rural areas: extreme cold including frost and ice, heavy falls of snow, flooding in urban and rural areas from rainfall and also from rivers; the person whose responsibility it is to have these emergency plans in place; the person whose responsibility it is to decide when to put these plans in place; the role his Department plays in these decisions and roll-out; the way the local authorities are to be informed and assisted in the event of any of these scenarios occurring; if an emergency warning plan for media and other organisations has been put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37109/10]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The Department for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has overall responsibility under the Emergency Planning Framework for severe weather issues.