Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

My last question is on the water supply project. That is the overarching, critical project which is, as we have heard from the evidence, necessary, and not just for resilience in supply. I heard, in part from the opening statement, that we are very much dependent on this single source water supply. The diversity that project will bring into the system will provide reliability so that, for example, when you need take a plant out or do maintenance, you are not cutting off that single source supply to a network. There has been much discussion on it. I remember being in Buswells Hotel about ten years ago for one of the first launches of it. It is necessary and I would like to see it progress.