Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 April 2011
97 Deputy Tom Barry asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the cost of flood hazard maps, produced by a company for Cork County Council and incorporated in Cork’s draft local area plans; if the requirement for these maps can be reviewed, in view of inaccuracies that have been highlighted. [6979/11]
View answerMy Department's Guidelines to Planning Authorities on the Planning System and Flood Risk Management, which were published on 30 November 2009, are aimed at ensuring a more consistent, rigorous and systematic approach to flood risk assessment and management in the planning system. The Guidelines which were issued under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, and to which planning authorities and An Bord Pleanála must have regard in the performance of their functions, inter alia advocate the incorporation of flood risk assessments in preparing and adopting local area plans in line with the requirement of the Guidelines.
It is a matter for planning authorities to identify the appropriate sources of information to be used in preparing flood risk assessments cited in the Guidelines and the associated Technical Appendices.
