Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)
2:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
I have a very short sentence. I understand exactly what the Chair says. It is a great source of frustration. What I picked up from Uisce Éireann is that it is right to a point, but it is more concerned with water quality than water supply. It does not care if there is no supply, once a small supply is of a high quality. Perhaps it is right in the long term. It is more interested in that than the provision of an adequate supply. There are two issues: quality and supply. Uisce Éireann's emphasis currently has gone away from supply and it is all geared towards water quality.
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