Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Mr. Niall Gleeson:

Also, when we had the drinking water incidents back in 2021, we brought in an oversight system. We now have a national operations centre on Talbot Street that looks at the drinking water plants. We are bringing the wastewater treatment plants into that system. We are currently looking at about a thousand plants around the country, but we will roll that out to plants, to pumping stations, to everything. Right now we do not have great visibility of a lot of these. We do not have the telemetry. While the EPA says it is easy to fix, I am not sure. We need to get telemetry. Every single pump and every single station needs to be reporting back into that national control centre so we have the oversight in order that when there are equipment failures or where the operator maybe has not done something, we will be alerted straight away back in the control centre and be able to react.

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