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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 09, 2018

QUESTION NO.9

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive if he would table a further report on the Council's response to the recent Severe Weather Alert arising from the Storm Emma/Beast from the East event. Will he detail lessons learnt and will he make a statement.

REPLY:

An Interim Report on the council’s Severe Weather Response to Storm Emma was given at the March Council Meeting

Staff from across all sections and departments of SDCC that were involved in the management of the Storm Emma and the remediation and clean up post the storm are meeting on Thursday 29th March to complete a full debrief of this severe weather event. This exercise will include examining areas of good practice, areas/items that require improvement and a list of recommendations to be put in place for future extreme weather events.

An assessment of the cost of responding to the storm and also the longer term financial impact including the repair that will now be required to infrastructure and to vehicles will also be collated.

Following this debrief meeting and review, a final report will issue to Council.