Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey has said no extra funds would be made available to local authorities to repair roads damaged during the recent severe weather.
Speaking this morning following a meeting of the National Emergency Response Committee this afternoon Mr Dempsey said local authorities were provided with an allocation for road works and, as usual, they would have to work within this.
He said a €400 million road works allocation had been agreed around the time of the Budget and that this would be given to local authorities later this month.
"The same rules apply every year," he said. "They work inside the budget they have."
He said no emergency funding was available from Government but that local authorities were always advised to "keep aside a certain amount of their allocation to meet weather contingencies".
Gerald Fleming of Met Éireann said temperatures were returning to normal but warned that heavy rain could cause further flooding in the south in the coming days.
Mr Fleming said “we could be looking at as much as 40 to 50mm of rain” between tonight tomorrow across the south and southwest which could lead to spot flooding.
Gerry Galvin of the Department of the Environment said he hoped water supplies would stabilise over the weekend when temperatures rose.
However, he said it could take "as long as three to four moths" for reservoirs and supplies to return to normal in Dublin and four to six weeks in other areas.
Mr Dempsey said local authorities in six areas - South Dublin, Tipperary North, Tipperary South, Meath, Carlow and Kildare- were investigating if urea which was used to grit roads when salt and grit supplies were wiped out had contaminated water supplies.
He said the authorities were awaiting test results but he was not concerned about supplied being contaminated.