Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

National Federation of Group Water Schemes

12:00 pm

Mr. Brian MacDonald:

I will come in on the issue of sustainability. I think it is a very good question. We still have issues to resolve. We have a lot of very small rural water supplies out there. We are working with the Department and it is very much a partnership approach. It is actually 20 years ago this month since the co-operative, collaborative approach to subsidy arrangements was made for group water schemes. One of the major focuses of the National Federation of Group Water Schemes in the time ahead is to ensure sustainability and we have begun a process of rationalisation within the sector. We are not content with being as good as Irish Water. We want to be better than it. There is evidence out there that a lot of schemes have attained that and we are going to continue on that road.

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