Call for O’Sullivan to resign over flood zone order

A town council is demanding junior environment minister Jan O’Sullivan resign after she issued a directive ordering the dezoning of land in a suspected floodplain.

The site in Midleton, Co Cork, close to the Owenacurra River, had been designated by the town council for mixed use/town development.

But following an Office of Public Works’ survey in 2009 the site, known as Watersedge, was earmarked a flood risk under an amendment to the Planning and Development Act 2000.