Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That concludes our consideration of correspondence for this week.

The next item is our work programme. At our last meeting, on 11 July, we agreed the following engagements for this term. Next week, on 26 September, we will engage with Uisce Éireann on its 2023 financial statements. It is proposed to flag the Shannon to Dublin water supply pipeline as an area of interest for this meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed. I ask that we would also raise with Uisce Éireann the area of spending on pipe replacement. When Irish Water was established, it was said that we had to establish it because the water system throughout the country was leaking at a rate of 50% and higher in some places, and the only way to get around that was to put in place this national utility, as it was called at the time. It has not been audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General up to 2023.

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