State’s response to floods ‘poor and confused’

A REPORT into the devastating flooding that affected thousands of homes last winter has said the state’s response to the crisis lacked leadership, coordination and communication.

The report has also suggested it is not good enough to have national emergencies spearheaded by people who are neither a senior minister nor a secretary general of a government department.

The authors, the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, also said the effort to coordinate state agencies during the crisis was confused.