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There's to be an urgent ministerial meeting tomorrow to discuss | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
the authorities' response to the flooding. | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
Taking part will be the Ministers for Agriculture, | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
Regional Development and the Environment. | :00:17. | :00:17. | |
It was organised as more heavy rain is predicted overnight, | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
to add to the problems suffered by businesses and homes over | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Our reporter Mervyn Jess has been to Portadown tonight to see | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
the latest efforts to protect homes there. | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
Heavily saturated ground and existing high water levels are | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
raising concerns over the projected rainfall overnight. In Portadown | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
sandbags have been dropped off ready for use should the need arise. If | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
this river overflows these pensioners's cottages Yarmouk stud | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
risk. Sound bites are not much of a cure, I can tell you. They didn't | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
stop getting in the last time. They had these pumps the last time. There | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
is a bitter over there that runs into the River band. It does. It is | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
still up, Lough Neagh is still up. There is nowhere for it to go. | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
Nowhere. It flooded two years ago. It makes a mess of the house. You | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
are afraid of that happening again. Water levels are already high with | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
some roads closed to traffic. This latest health of heavy rainfall is | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
sweeping in from the West and is already falling in County Fermanagh | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
and County Armagh, but the bulk of that is not due until the early | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
hours of the morning. The rivers agency said that flood squads are on | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
stand-by to deal with emergencies. Flood-hit businesses on the shores | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
of Lough Neagh have questioned whether enough was done | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
to prevent rising waters. The level of the lough | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
is at a 30-year-high and several business properties | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
have been badly damaged Our environment correspondent, | :02:04. | :02:04. | |
Conor Macauley, reports. The lough had reached record heights | :02:05. | :02:19. | |
at the recent rain storms but the water has now reached the businesses | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
on shore. They have been inundated putting 20 jobs here at risk. It is | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
heartbreaking for everybody on the premises. We are small businesses, | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
we put our livelihoods into it and it is heart-wrenching. In the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
interim, we are going to have to look of laying people off. I can't | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
sustain wages going out. I still have to pay my rent, my rates, all | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
the other overheads that go with running a business. People can come | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
in through the shop door, there is no income. Lough Neagh is that a 30 | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
year high. Its level is controlled by these gates. Questions are being | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
asked if they should've been open sooner. You need to ask the | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
question, with the amount of water forecast, was of sufficient? It | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
clearly wasn't. There are other reasons I'm sure whether floodgate, | :03:17. | :03:25. | |
the level of the water... Baby people were caught by surprise. The | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
agency responsible for regulating the level of the lough said they | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
acted appropriately. 42% of the landmass of Northern Ireland drains | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
into Lough Neagh. In situations where we have heavy rain across that | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
catchment it is inevitable that we will get rising water and | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
appropriated flooding. It is heartbreaking for the owners. Some | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
of the decades, others just moved in Christmas. Some money has come from | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
central government. The executive has been told to hurry up and decide | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
how it will be spent. They want to know they will get any assistance, | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
can they get any help to ensure that their business opens quickly. The | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
money will be of little comfort to these business people. They can't | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
even start to clear up until the level of the lough begins to fall. | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
Good Morning Ulster on BBC Radio Ulster will be hearing | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
more about how people are coping and talking to Stormont Ministers | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
ahead of their flood response meeting tomorrow. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
A car has crashed through a sea wall on the Portaferry Road near Mount | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
The vehicle ended up on the beach and one of two people | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Coastguard, ambulance and fire workers managed to free the person | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
The accident happened near where a bus crashed | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
through a wall into the sea four weeks ago. | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Gardai have warned that dissident republican paramilitaries | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
are becoming increasingly skilled at making bombs. | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
Officers today held a news conference and showed a sample | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Gardai today put on a display a selection weapons seized | :04:57. | :05:08. | |
from dissident republicans over the last two years. | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
Rocket launchers, rifles, Semtex and a beer keg bomb. | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
That beer keg was ready for use in Northern Ireland. | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
It was found within 300 or 400 metres of the border to take over | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
the border to cause damage and potential injury and murder | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
to people living in Northern Ireland. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Although gardai say they have had significant success in disrupting | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
attacks, there is concern that dissident republicans are becoming | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
I can say with confidence that our interventions have, | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
When you look at some of these devices and the way | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
they are operated, it shows an increasing sign of sophistication | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
I suppose the finding of such items such as detonators are indicative | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
of the business that these people are in. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
22 people have been charged in connection | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
The gardai today urged the public to be even more vigilant. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
The electricity supplier SSE is cutting its prices from next | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
week, and bills from other energy suppliers are also set to fall. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The Utility Regulator is reviewing electricity and gas tariffs | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
and will make an announcement next month. | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
I've been hearing more from our Economics and Business Editor, | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
SSE, the second-biggest electricity supplier here are going to prices by | :06:40. | :06:54. | |
just over 1% from Monday and that comes on top of an ape percent that | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
they delivered last year. What is underpinning all of this is that | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
wholesale energy prices, what is paid for energy on the world | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
markets, is continuing to fall. Natural gas, for example, is down by | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
20% compared to this time last year. What about the other suppliers? The | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Utility Regulator, which has the power to influence prices amongst | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
the biggest suppliers, they are undertaking a review that will | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
report next month. Because those prices are coming down globally, | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
they will come down locally as well. It is the job of the regulator to | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
make sure that the prices we pay reflect the wholesaler price. We | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
would expect him to's prices to come down quite substantially. -- | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
PowerNI's prices to come down. What we will continue to see is energy | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
prices are still coming down. The Department for Education is | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
facing a cash reduction over the next year. The Minister said that | :08:07. | :08:19. | |
the full impact on school budgets would not be clear until March. | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
It's going to be very wet again tonight. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
With the forecast, here's Geoff Maskell. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
The rain is back with a vengeance tonight. We are expecting up to 40 | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
millimetres of rain. A weather warning is in place. It will take | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
six to nine hours for that room to clear us. Although the rainfall | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
totals are not huge, given the very wet ground that we have a moment it | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
could cause localised flooding. That ban the brain were polite to the | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
East in the early part of the morning. Behind it we have clearing | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
skies. There is a risk of some icy patches on untreated roads in the | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
early part of Thursday. We are by no means getting the worst of the | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
weather, that is reserved for the northern part of Scotland where they | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
have an amber warning in place because of strong winds and snow. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
The further south you go the drier and brighter it gets. Through the | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
afternoon tomorrow, not a bad picture in Northern Ireland. Recent | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
spells of drier weather. It will feel cooler temperatures and low | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
single figures. Have really cold night Thursday into Friday with the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
widespread frost by Friday morning. Fried itself a reasonably pleasant | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
day. Between the odd shower some of those wintry over them on mountains | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
in particular, it will be at full day, but also brighter. The general | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
theme of the downward trend in temperatures continues as we head | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am in the morning during Breakfast | :09:52. | :09:57. |