Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

Public Water Forum

1:30 pm

Mr. Jerry Grant:

I will come back in detail because I think that would be better and more effective. We do all the things we are talking about here. We do radio communications and leaflet drops in relation to boil water notices. There is one compelling reason having an effective call centre connected with operations works really well in the medium and long term, and in the short term when everybody plays their part, and that is that all the information is captured, fed back into the system and used. We decide on our mains replacement programme on the basis of frequency of bursts. We decide on our interventions and our programmes of work based on precisely the data we collect through the call centre. It is a really effective way of doing it. It breaks down when some part of the chain does not work. I absolutely accept that this is a work in progress. We had 10,000 calls last year from elected representatives alone, and I get a lot of very positive feedback on that. I am not complacent and I fully accept that we have a way to go.

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