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. Colm Brady:
-----group water schemes have worked in a largely voluntary capacity. The other issue in regard to that, and where charges in group water schemes can rise, is that in order to comply with drinking water regulations it is no longer sufficient to operate group water schemes in a voluntary capacity. There is need for professional, paid management and caretakers to meet these regulations, and we are working with the group water schemes again. We have a lot of management structures in place. That is just one of the areas where there might be an increase in costs associated with that.
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