Flooding (Houses of the Oireachtas)

Flooding - Relief schemes - issues relating to

Sitting date: 24/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if there is compensation available for a person that spent €17,000 on remedial work on their land following damages caused by flooding of the River Slaney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 302 to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine ]

Flooding - Relief schemes - issues relating to

Sitting date: 24/10/2017
[Written Answers] The Arterial Drainage Acts of 1945 and 1995 provide the Office of Public Works with powers for drainage and improvement of agricultural land and the undertaking of localised flood defence schemes to reduce flood risk in urban areas. The Arterial Drainage Acts and SI 122 of 2010 Re...

Flooding - Floods - measures to prevent

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Written Answers]...his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 94 to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ]

Flooding - Floods - measures to prevent

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Written Answers] Refurbishment of flood defence embankments commenced at Gurrane on 27/07/17. The proposed works was extended further downstream on the Maine Estuary due to deterioration of the flood defence embankment over the last 12 months. Consequently this resulted in additional work on the ...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I often hear that IFI is in some way blocking cleaning. What I would say is that Inland Fisheries Ireland writes every year to every local authority reminding them of their responsibilities in relation to works on rivers. In general, that work should be carried out in the period 1...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, to the House. Deputy Calleary, you are going to discuss an issue that is close to my heart, that is, the need to address river cleaning and drainage in advance of winter storms. You have four minutes.[Murphy, Eugene]

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for giving us the go-ahead to raise this matter this evening. I want to join everyone in recent days who has paid tribute to Met Éireann and the National Emergency Co-ordination Centre as well as our local and national media and everyone who was in...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] I am taking this Topical Issue matter on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin "Boxer" Moran. I concur with the expressions of sympathy to the families of those who suffered bereavement and the three fatalities in Waterford, Tipperary and Louth, and also commend the work of...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] That response was given to me three or four weeks ago. I am asking the Minister of State about the current situation, in the context of what is ahead over the next few weeks, months and indeed days and the weather advisories being given overnight. I welcome the individual property...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] There are many issues there that I will take back to the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin 'Boxer' Moran, with regard to the issues in Crossmolina. I will ask for further updates on that and also on Deputy Calleary's query on the review of the home relocation scheme. I will also ask...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 18/10/2017
[Topical Issues] It is not blocking work.[Calleary, Dara]

Flooding - Floods - measures to prevent

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers] The Interdepartmental Flood Policy Co-ordination Group is considering the potential costs and benefits associated with the introduction of any potential individual property protection scheme. The Group is being informed by two different pilot projects, which are currently underway...

Flooding - Floods - measures to prevent

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers]...his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 158 to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ]

Flooding - Floods - risk assessments

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers] The river referred to by the Deputy does not form part of any Arterial Drainage Scheme, which would fall under the remit of the Office of Public Works (OPW) under the 1945 Arterial Drainage Act. The OPW therefore has no responsibility for the maintenance of this river. Local flo...

Flooding - Floods - risk assessments

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if his department has carried out investigations on flooding on a river (details supplied) in County Donegal; if there are plans to carry out works at this location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 159 to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ]

Flooding - Relief schemes - expenditure

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers] The following table sets out the budget allocation and expenditure in the Flood Risk Management area since 2014. The capital figures relate primarily to expenditure on the OPW’s capital works programme on major and minor flood relief projects. The current figures relate primarily...

Flooding - Relief schemes - expenditure

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the amount allocated to flood relief measures in each of the past four budgets and budget 2018; the amount that was spent during each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 164 to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ]

Flooding - Relief schemes - funding

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if funding is available to assist farmers in County Donegal located near a river (details supplied) to clear it in view of the fact their farms were flooding in August 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 443 to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Mar...

Flooding - Relief schemes - funding

Sitting date: 17/10/2017
[Written Answers] The Arterial Drainage Acts of 1945 and 1995 provide the Office of Public Works with powers for drainage and improvement of agricultural land and the undertaking of localised flood defence schemes to reduce flood risk in urban areas. The Arterial Drainage Acts and SI 122 of 2010 Re...

Flooding - Relief schemes - issues relating to

Sitting date: 12/10/2017
[Written Answers]...the funding streams available from his department which can assist a community with the clean up of a river (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 71 to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ]

Flooding - Relief schemes - issues relating to

Sitting date: 12/10/2017
[Written Answers] Local flooding issues are a matter, in the first instance, for each local authority to investigate and address. If this issue relates to the recent flood event in Donegal and subsequent clean-up, financial assistance with the cost of the clean-up is a matter, in the first instanc...

Flooding - Catchment flood risk assessment and management programme - issues relating to

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if flood prevention funding for Killybegs which was requested through the catchments flooding risk assessment will be approved; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if funding had been approved the recent flooding of the Bridge street district could have been avoided;...

Flooding - Catchment flood risk assessment and management programme - issues relating to

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Written Answers] The core strategy for addressing areas at potentially significant risk from flooding is the Office of Public Works (OPW) Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management (CFRAM) Programme. The Programme, which is being undertaken by engineering consultants on behalf of the OPW workin...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Commencement Matters] I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran, for facilitating this debate, which is very important in the context of Limerick. I refer to the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM study which, in layman's terms, produces flood risk management plans...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Commencement Matters] I wish to thank the Senator for raising this matter today and I am pleased to provide an update on the status on the preparation of the CFRAM programme and when it is expected to be published. The CFRAM programme is the largest flood risk management programme ever undertaken ...

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Commencement Matters] The Senator got a good answer so I ask him to be very brief.[An Cathaoirleach]

Flooding - Floods - risk management

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Commencement Matters] I thank the Minister of State and look forward to him coming to visit Limerick. He is more than welcome. This is very important to us. There has been an extensive consultation process and in one location, Castleconnell village, there was a need for a second consultation bec...

Flooding - Relief schemes - issues relating to

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Written Answers]...if he has received a report independently commissioned by an organisation (details supplied) carried out by persons that are experts in flood management and climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [Q. No(s) 89 to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform ]

Flooding - Relief schemes - issues relating to

Sitting date: 11/10/2017
[Written Answers] The Office of Public Works (OPW) has received in recent days a copy of a report by HR Wallingford commissioned by the “savecorkcity” group to support that group's claims that a tidal barrier for Cork City would cost in the region of €140 million. The report is being considered by ...

Flooding - Floods - measures to prevent

Sitting date: 10/10/2017
[Written Answers] Maintenance of rivers and other watercourses can have a positive role to play in preventing the deterioration of channel conveyance capacity. A regular maintenance programme to remove excess inorganic material, vegetation and/or remove debris and rubbish from river channels, and e...