Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Mr. Niall Gleeson:

I might let Ms Attridge come in on the preparedness there.

When Storm Éowyn hit, we had a peak of approximately 100,000 people without water because of the lack of electricity supply, but we had 400,000 people getting their water supplied by generator-driven plants, so we had a lot preparedness already built in. It was just that Storm Éowyn was quite exceptional. We have ordered a lot more generators. There are two things with generators; one, is to make the plants generator-ready-----

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