Ireland will miss European Commission deadline on flooding plans

Ireland will miss the deadline for lodging plans with the European Commission on how to best prevent flooding and manage areas when they are flooded.

The OPW, responsible for drawing them up, said they will be finalised in 2016, but they should have been completed in December 2015 and submitted by March.

Apart from preventing the devastating effects of floods, the state will not qualify for EU aid for the clean up if EU disaster risk prevention law is not in force.