Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 11 December 2025
25. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if flood defence works along a river are advancing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70797/25]
View answer26. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the position regarding the flood defences for a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70796/25]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 25 and 26 together.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
I understand the River Bride overtops its banks upstream and downstream of Crookstown Bridge. Flow paths through properties cause flooding to some 23 properties and on local and regional roads. The road drainage is unable to discharge to the river during a flood event.
The 2014 Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme studied the flood risk at Crookstown and did not identify a viable major scheme to manage the flood risk. It recommended localised flood mitigation measures are progressed through the Office of Public Works, Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme. This scheme does not extend to mitigating flooding to the road network.
Cork County Council, with OPW funding for nine staff to support the delivery of their programme of flood relief schemes, is leading the Crookstown Flood Relief Scheme.
The Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme was introduced by the OPW in 2009. The purpose of the scheme is to provide 90% funding to local authorities to undertake minor flood mitigation works or studies to address localised flooding or coastal erosion problems within their administrative areas. The scheme generally applies where a solution can be readily identified and achieved in a short time frame. The criteria for the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme are currently under review, following on from my announcement earlier this year of an increase in funding thresholds that are to be made available under the Scheme. The OPW expect to advise Local Authorities of the revised criteria for the Scheme shortly.
Funding approval under the Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme of €295,027 was allocated to Cork County Council in 2021 for minor embankment and improvement works, construction of a flood defence, a storm water pumping station, new drainage pipes and associated works at Crookstown, Co. Cork. In its approval, the OPW highlighted these works are a significant interim measure to mitigate flood damage in advance of further works.
While the Council has not drawn down this funding, it has engaged with its consultants to design options for further works. While an option has been identified, the Council is engaging with funding partners, including the Department of Transport, for these further works.
The funding approved by the OPW to Cork County Council remains in place and available and it remains open to the Council to make a further application to the OPW under the OPW Minor Flood Mitigation Works and Coastal Protection Scheme.
