Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 May 2017
583. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available to a person whose land has been lost to erosion on the River Slaney in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24703/17]
View answerThere are currently no funding supports available to farmers who may have been adversely impacted by riverine erosion. As you will be aware, the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Mr. Seán Canney T.D., recently announced the introduction of a once-off targeted Voluntary Homeowner Relocation Scheme.
As part of the announcement the Minister outlined that further examination is ongoing by the OPW, Local Authorities and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in evaluating, on an individual basis, if any alternative remedial works can be undertaken to protect those at risk farm buildings that flooded again last Winter in order to inform the feasibility of any future once-off targeted scheme for Voluntary Farm Building Relocation.
