Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of flood events from 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020, by local authority in tabular form. [27735/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department undertakes the Lead Government Department role, as set out in the Strategic Emergency Management (SEM) Framework (2017), in relation to coordination of national level response to flooding emergencies, where warranted. This includes preparation of review reports into the response to flooding emergencies where national level coordination is activated, including the Review Report on Severe Weather Events 2017-2018, which is available on my Department's website at the following link:

It should be noted that local authorities are designated as lead agency for coordinating the local response to flooding emergencies as per the Government decision relating to the “Framework for Major Emergency Management” (2006). My Department would not be involved in flooding events that are managed at a local level and therefore would not hold the precise data requested by the Deputy.

The flooding events that my Department have responded to in its role as lead Government Department over the period 2017 to date are set out below.

2017

August 2017 – Inishowen, Co. Donegal

November 2017 – Mountmellick, Co. Laois

2018

January 2018 – Galway City

2019

October 2019 - Donegal Town 

December 2019 - Galway City

2020

February 2020 – River Shannon (numerous areas)

June 2020 – Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford

July 2020 – Kenmare, Sneem, Co. Kerry

August 2020 – Skibbereen, Youghal, Bantry and Bandon, Co. Cork

September 2020 – Clifden, Co. Galway