Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion

Dr. Tom Ryan:

Around this time last year, we were in here with two very serious matters. There were two incidents, one at the plant at Ballymore Eustace and the other in Gorey. There was a lot of concerted action after that to remedy the issues at both of those plants and to take the learnings from those incidents. Irish Water carried out its own inspections of the top 20 plants across its fleet of plants, and we did something similar. Many lessons were learned around that, particularly around the training of staff. We are seeing the results of that coming through, almost perversely, with increased boil water notices. As I said at the beginning, the issuing of such notices-----

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