Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Non-Compliant Installations of Water Meter Boxes: Irish Water and Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
4:00 pm
Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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I have a number of questions and I want to thank the witnesses for their presentations. I will read the questions out. I will be as quick as I can but I will need a few minutes. All stopcocks were replaced by meter boxes. The stopcocks were predominantly fitted and paid for by the householder. All these stopcocks were the correct grade B standard. Irish Water has now replaced them with a substandard product that does not comply with prescribed standards. How can this be right?
Why did Irish Water make-----