Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No. P00021/22 relates to the Kiltimagh water scheme and is from Mr. Tom Carney, who claims:

We are a village of about twenty families in Kiltimagh co Mayo. The age ranges between twelve months and nights eight years old. We have never had a drinking water supply in our village. We started back in 2012 working with mayo council. Fast forward finally getting funding for a water supply to all homes in 2019. Since [then] we have hit roadblocks with Mayo Council and Irish water. All funding is in place and all families had contributed €1500 to €3000 each household. We provided all maps worked with approved contractors all to no avail. Irish water and Mayo council don’t get along and we will never get a water supply. We have [petitioned] every political figure in mayo. To no avail again. [The claim is that] Mayo Council and Irish water don’t get along. I have at least sixty emails and letters to council and Irish water. I have three very young children and buying bottled water has my family struggle day in day out. All the same for the village.

This is similar to what we have just spoken about in respect of Terence Coskeran. We need to get in touch with Mayo County Council. The recommendation is that in light of the sensitive nature of this petition and the seeming lack of progress, we will invite the petitioner, Mayo County Council, Uisce Éireann and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to come before us on the same day in order that we can hear from all the sides. It is proposed that the running order on day would be a first session lasting 90 minutes with the petitioner and a second session with Mayo County Council, Uisce Éireann and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The committee may leave other petitions until the following meeting if that is agreed. Do members have any views?