Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann
2:00 am
Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
I guessed as much. I just wanted to clarify that.
One other issue is the brain drain. Knowledge loss is something I would be afraid of. I was talking to a local engineer about specific pipes. There is almost a kind of wizardry that goes with someone who has been operating in a place for 30 years and knows the direction in which particular pipes go. It is like a labyrinth underground, and none of us fully realises the knowledge of that guy who is in his late 50s and has worked in a place for 30 or 40 years until he steps across to, say, be the engineer in Kildare County Council. Is there a fear about that?
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