Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion
Mr. Niall Gleeson:
The first question was on the alarms and the responsibility or response to the alarms. I guess the majority of it is down to Fingal County Council. We indicated our dissatisfaction in March with the non-response. One of my fundamental principles on this issue is that we cannot have a system relying on the actions of one operator. We need to put in place better control systems and auto-shutdowns but more automation as well. Our national control centre has secondary responsibility or an extra layer of responsibility. We need systems and ways of working around that to make it effective.
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