Three Cork councils to be granted €700k to help with ‘exceptional costs’ of floods

Three local authorities in Cork are to be granted €700,000 to help with “exceptional costs” incurred as a result of recent flooding.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan will today announce the funding which will cover clean-up costs, the repair of roads, and reconstruction of certain public facilities.

It will not be extended to individual households affected by last month’s severe weather, which are entitled to avail of a €10m hardship fund put in place following flooding in Dublin last year.