Flood victims complain Oireachtas report fails to lay blame

VICTIMS of the November floods have described a cross-party investigation’s inability to come to any firm conclusions on what caused the crisis as “a typical political response” to the major problem.

Speaking after a leaked version of the Oireachtas Environment Committee report into last winter’s severe weather was revealed by the Irish Examiner, Greg Franklin said the document failed to answer the questions at the centre of the inquiry.

The spokesperson for the Cork Flood Action Committee (CFAC) agreed with the group’s legal adviser Joe Noonan that the information in the report will be of “prime value” over the months to come as the CFAC concludes its own independent investigation of the crisis.