Eoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)
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820. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the analysis his Department has completed on the recovery and rebuilding costs in the event of potential major coastal flood events in Sandymount and nationally. [42967/25]

Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent)
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In 2018, the OPW completed the National Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme - the largest ever flood risk study in Ireland to date. This study involved an engineering assessment for 300 communities, including 90 coastal areas, identified as areas of potentially significant flood risk. As part of the CFRAM study, indicative damages for a range of flood event magnitudes were assessed for present day conditions and potential future scenarios, taking into account the potential impacts of climate change, for each of the 300 communities. The assessments carried out are available from the relevant CFRAM studies on the OPW flood information portal .

Capital flood relief schemes designed, developed and/or funded by the OPW are subject to a detailed, project-level economic appraisal in the form of a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). As schemes are developed, the CBA assesses the benefits of a scheme, expressed as flood damages that would be avoided were the scheme to be built relative to the cost of the scheme as measured over a 50-year period.