Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Photo of Eoghan KennyEoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)

I welcome everyone. I am going to be quite parochial in most of my questions. I represent the northside of Cork city, where the water quality has been absolutely disastrous for a number of years. I want to refer to the number of complaints made, as mentioned by Deputy McGrath. The number of complaints has come down because people are not complaining anymore. They are sick and tired of complaining; that is why the number has come down. Two friends of mine living on Lee Road, Cork, took a brown shower on Tuesday night. They did not make a complaint whereas previously they would have. That is why the number of complaints has fallen.

Back in January, "Prime Time" investigated water quality on the northside of Cork city. Of a total of 246 samples, 166 were tested for manganese between May 2024 and January 2025. How many were tested this year?

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