Johan Keating at his home in Kilternan, Co. Dublin where flooding from Storm Chandra has soaked furniture and destroyed equipment. “Work is under way to consider potential solutions, specific to Ireland, to increase the availability and affordability flood insurance.”Neither the department or Insurance Ireland would say whether State-provided flood insurance was being considered. “I have flood insurance but I don’t know if I’ll claim off it,” he says. “I don’t know. Unless you’re going to live on a mountaintop I don’t know is anyone completely safe.”
