Donegal County Council says it will be pressing for the two OPW flood relief schemes in Raphoe and Castlefinn to be advanced as quickly as possible.
84mm of rain fell in Donegal on Saturday resulting in flash flooding in the east of the county.
In a statement issued today, Donegal County Council has confirmed that ten commercial premises and eight homes were flooded during the incident and that that figure is expected to rise.
While there had been persistent rain throughout the day on Saturday, Met Eireann weather warning alerting service advised of a Level Yellow rainfall warning for 13 counties including Donegal shortly after 6.30 on Saturday evening and the Council says that there had been no prior warning of an escalated risk for anywhere in Donegal.
The Council also says that it should be noted that yellow rainfall warnings are cautionary in nature and are frequent in Donegal and other counties.
Reports of flooding in Raphoe, Castlefinn, Convoy and Killygordon began to emerge at around 7:40pm on Saturday with the fire service, Roads Service staff and Civil Defence Units deployed.
The Council says a clean-up and assessment operation commenced yesterday morning with bridges and culverts inspected, debris removed from roads and areas that will require more extensive repairs were secured.
It is expected that further details in relation to the Business Support Scheme will be available later today.
