Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and list of flood alleviation and protection schemes funded in each year from 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the amount committed to each project; the projects for which funding has been requested but not yet awarded or allocated; his plans to fund such projects within the remainder of the capital plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7030/18]

Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent)
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The following table sets out the major flood relief schemes which have been and are being funded by the Office of Public Works (OPW) and on which expenditure was incurred from the 1st January, 2015, to 9th February, 2018, along with the estimated whole life costs of each scheme.

** Schemes at construction

In addition to the above-funded schemes, projects which are in the pipeline for funding by the OPW and are under discussion between the OPW and various local authorities include:

Sandymount, Co Dublin

Camac River, Dublin

Carrigaline, Co Cork

Clontarf, Dublin

Macroom, Co Cork

Mountmellick, Co Laois

River Poddle, Dublin

Portmarnock, Co Dublin

Skerries, Co Dublin

Springfield, Co Clare

Whitechurch Stream, Co Dublin

In addition to these major schemes, the OPW has also provided funding to local authorities on a range of projects through the Minor Flood Alleviation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme which allows local authorities to undertake works or studies to address small localised flooding and coastal protection problems within their own administrative areas. Details of those projects which have been approved for funding in each year since 2009 are provided on the OPW website www.opw.ie./. Applications for funding under the Scheme are made by local authorities on an ongoing basis.

The Government has committed to significant increased investment in flood risk management in the current Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021 which provides an allocation of €430m during the lifetime of the current Plan, during which the majority of the above projects will be implemented. It is anticipated that the new Capital Plan 2018-2027 will provide for a continuation of this increased level of investment in flood risk management so as to enable the remaining significant flood risk in the country to be addressed over the next decade through the continued implementation of schemes in the existing programme of flood relief capital works and the implementation of new schemes which will arise from the Flood Risk Management Plans developed under the national Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) programme. The Plans are expected to be published shortly.