Businesses may get compensation over flood defence works

THE Office of Public Works will be asked to compensate businesses in a Co Cork town which will suffer further disruption because defective concrete used in flood prevention works will have to be replaced.

Businesses may get compensation over flood defence works

Contractors working on the scheme in Fermoy have apologised after it was revealed by the Irish Examiner that a problem existed with “the durability of concrete” poured into a section of flood defences on the northern side of the town.

The issue of compensation is to be discussed at a meeting of Fermoy Town Council on July 20.

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