Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

One of the toughest experiences that faced many of my constituents in Galway East this year was during Storm Éowyn at the start of the year. Nobody could have anticipated just how devastating that storm would be, but it showed that there is a massive gap in our resilience and ability to respond to storm events like that, and particularly with a lot of our drinking water plants in north Galway and Roscommon. We had plants that were out for six or seven days. I cannot fault the people on the ground who were working hard to get them back online and I cannot fault the fact that Uisce Éireann had to go and find generators for them. My question is looking to the future. What is the plan if power to a treatment plant or one of our water systems is cut again? Will Uisce Éireann have generators in place the next time this happens? That is an issue that the public want to see serious action on.