Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC

1:30 pm

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Graham for that response. The only other question I have concerns the potential for impact on private schemes or private water supplies. One of the nuggets of information derived from Irish Water, the Department and others has been that there are a number of privately owned water supply systems that are sourced from the public supply. As far as I am aware, they are part of group schemes they are paying into, but I am not aware of there being any payments to the State. From a legal perspective, in terms of the continued supply, is it possible for the State to continue to supply water to a private scheme that, as far as I am aware, is not paying for its water other than for the provision of the pipes it has put in because the source is from the State but the scheme is private?

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