Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion

Mr. Niall Gleeson:

Again, we are still investigating. It may be more complicated than that. The operator may have thought he had resolved the issue and did not need to report it. Every day these operators - and there are hundreds of them around the country - go out and make judgment calls about how plants operate. We have a structure that has not had good investment for 60 years. It is not high-tech. It relies on the skills and knowledge of very experienced professional people in the water services. That is where we get our protection. These incidents are very rare. What we are emphasising here is that when things go wrong we need communication with Irish Water so we can consult and get messages out to the public and prevent incidents.

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