However Alan Kelly warned that the county is not out of the woods yet with further heavy rains forecast over the next three weeks.
It comes as the Flood Response Team meets in Clonmel today to review procedures over the past week and receive updates on current river levels.
Jacinta Hayden had extensive damage to her home caused by flood water last week when the local river near her Ballingarry home suddenly burst its banks and hit them like a torrent.
It will be months before they will be able to return and Jacinta and her husband Darren are among dozens of people right across the county who were hit by severe flooding.
Carrick on Suir, Clonmel, Kilsheelan, Cahir and Ardfinnan were among the worst affected but roads throughout the Premier were either impassable or had severe restrictions on them due to the level of water from local rivers just bursting their banks.
In Carrick the town was effectively cut off from the rest of Tipperary after the Mill river burst its bank with water cascading down the N24 towards Treacy Park.
Some locals were very critical of the council's initial response with confusion over whether the town's in built pumps were actually working, surface pumps had to be brought in to clear the water.
Sinn Fein representative David Dunne says better communication is needed.
However Carrick District Director Pat Slattery says what happened was unprecedented but lessons will be learnt.
In Clonmel, Tipperary County Council officials say the Flood Emergency Response Plan in Clonmel has proved successful in recent days.
Water levels in the River Suir in the town peaked at 10 inches higher than the levels of the 2004 floods.
Initial indications are that the flood defence scheme worked well though there was a significant amount of surface flooding at a number of locations.
Senior Executive Officer with Tipperary County Council Ger Walsh says a detailed analysis of the situation will be carried out once the immediate issues have been dealt with.
Kilgainy – which was heavily impacted by flooding was evacuated as a precaution but the householders were allowed to return yesterday.
Liz O'Brien, whose home has been flooded nine times now, refused to leave and she wants the issues in the area sorted out now.
A raft of road restrictions remain in place across Tipperary today – the majority of which are in the Carrick Municipal District area, however there are up to a dozen in North and Mid Tipp too.
Independent Cllr Micheál Lowry was calling for the immediate return of the county council to discuss the situations as roads where were already below par are now virtually destroyed.
He feels that there was no county wide plan to deal with the flooding.
Meanwhile, the Environment Minister has praised the efforts of civil defence and voluntary groups across Tipperary and across the country for their work in tackling unprecedented flooding in recent days.
However Alan Kelly warned that the county is not out of the woods yet with further heavy rains forecast over the next three weeks.
The Minister says a long term plan is needed to cover issues such as planning and river maintenance – that will span 50 to 100 years and not just the immediate future.
Meanwhile the ESB say that the flow of water through Parteen Weir will remain at 470 cubic metres per second today.
That's around 470,000 litres a second.
The flow will be reviewed again tomorrow as the levels of water in Lough Derg approach 2009 levels.
