Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
Standards of Service in Water Supply: Irish Water and CER
4:20 pm
Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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That leads to another couple of questions I have for the CER. Like other utilities that operate customer charters dealing with standards of supply, in the case of water, one is looking at water quality - there was mention of the Environmental Protection Agency - and water pressure. Will the CER require Irish Water to have a customer charter to reassure customers that it must maintain an acceptable standard of service, and if that service cannot be achieved, will a penalty of some sort apply as is the case in other utilities? If the pressure or quality is not adequate, surely the customer should have recompense to a charter of some sort.