Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Séamus McGrathSéamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I know the Chair is going to give me 30 seconds, so I will just make a point about water outages. We have a number of old water mains in my electoral area. Not to end on a negative note, but there has been criticism in terms of there being, for example, a break in a pipe on a Saturday afternoon and then it being Monday before a crew starts working on the replacement or repair of that mains. The outage impacts businesses, households and so on. Is Uisce Éireann trying to improve that situation and also the information provided when there is an outage? Obviously, it is an emergency situation and not a planned outage. The information flow, though, can be quite poor at times in terms of the time to service restoration and so on. I ask that Uisce Éireann look at these processes to see how it could improve them.

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