Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion

Mr. Jim Gannon:

For the inspections regime in 2023, in and around 25% of the sites inspected were disconnected from the main. What happens then is that the licensed network operator will call down a first response fitter from either of the existing operators, namely, Calor or Flogas. In the majority of cases, the challenge or the safety risk will have been mitigated and fixed and the gas will have been reconnected within the day or the day or two following that. In any instances during inspection where risk was found and risk at a certain level was detected, that would have been acted upon immediately and it usually occurs that gas is reconnected and service is restored within the day or the following couple of days.

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