The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed that he and the Government will consider allocating further emergency funding to help with the clean up of a number of flood hit areas.
Mr Kenny told reporters recently that there is a strong possibility that further funding could be made available, saying: “Firstly Let me empathise with householders and business people who have had flooding occur on their premises, from Castlefinn down to Bandon, over the last weekend.” “Clearly a month’s rain in two days is something that we’re not used to in Ireland and November being a very wet month with the ground being saturated to a great extent has exacerbated this problem.” The Taoiseach said that he and fellow ministers would discuss the issue in hand in due course and they will look at a number of ways of solving the problem.
The news Mr Kenny’s proposed plans to tackle the issue comes after he and the Minister of State, Simon Harris met the chair of the National Emergency Co-ordination group, Sean Hogan earlier this week to discuss the severity of the problem. The Taoiseach said that he has also met with the chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht, who had collected reports of flooding from around the country.