Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Please do that as a matter of urgency. You can imagine people walking in and discovering that a system has been hacked. The same houses that had been without electricity for the week before have no water again on this occasion. It was the first time it has come to my attention that we are so vulnerable to cyberattacks. We may expect it on the HSE and previously on other things but here we have a rural group water scheme in remote Belmullet being impacted by such global events. I know there were similar hacks carried out in Pennsylvania and some other areas of the United States of America. It requires that all of the equipment we use for utilities is checked in this way.

There are many other questions but I really appreciate the committee letting me in to ask this. Please can we focus on getting water to rural areas. On the treatment plant and the raw sewage we are charging businesses in places like Newport in Mayo for putting raw sewage out into Clew Bay. That is really wrong in this day and age.