Cork flooding: OPW minister pledges to speed up €5.8m Midleton home protection scheme

With Storm Babet’s anniversary approaching, Midleton residents demand faster rollout of Cork’s €5.8m flood defence scheme as 650 homes await barriers

Some 600 houses in Midleton were damaged, along with about 300 businesses, some of which have since closed for good. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

OPW minister Kevin Boxer Moran has vowed to speed up the roll-out of a €5.8m scheme designed to help protect individual houses in a Cork town from flooding.

Set up last year, about 650 of the 725 valid applications for the Midleton and East Cork Individual Property Protection (IPP) Scheme funding have yet to be completed, according to figures from Cork County Council last month.