Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I just want to say a few words and then I will let Mr. Carney in. In this day and age, to have a whole community without water is a disgrace. I was on a county council and I know that all the talk is about clusters and bringing people from the big urban areas to rural areas, but people cannot settle in any area, rural or urban, without water. Like Mr. Ivers, I grew up in a family of 11 without any running water so I know exactly what he went through at a young age. I was seven when we got an outside tap and it was like manna from heaven. For a community to be without water and then to have a tap put 1 km away is totally wrong, as far as I am concerned.

I have several questions. Throughout the process, were the witnesses kept informed by the council or Uisce Éireann as to what was going on and why there were delays?