Overview
- Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers said the Government favors more localised warnings, arguing county-wide alerts can miss high-risk areas lacking detailed hydraulic data.
- Two cabinet meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, including an incorporeal session to sign off on funding changes and a separate discussion with the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and relevant ministers on the wider response.
- Proposals would raise the Emergency Humanitarian Funding Scheme cap from €20,000 to €100,000 with a €5,000 immediate payment for affected businesses and groups without flood insurance and with fewer than 50 employees.
- An Emergency Response Payment is available to individual households in Wexford, Wicklow, Dublin, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Louth and Monaghan, assessed case by case.
- The NECG says crews and volunteers remain active as Met Éireann issues a rain warning for eight counties with further flooding risk, and the Irish Red Cross helpline (01-6424648) operates 9am–6pm over the bank holiday weekend.