TDs call for one agency to handle floods

An urgent review of water levels on the River Shannon and the need for one agency to oversee emergency flooding plans have been recommended in an Oireachtas report.

Farmers yesterday told TDs how families and communities along the river were suffering “terribly” after recent floods and damage to crops and lands.

The Oireachtas Committee on the Environment will now press ministers in charge of flood prevention to act on a series of recommendations to protect lands.