Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services

Scottish Water, Welsh Water and the Commission for Energy Regulation

1:30 pm

Mr. Chris Jones:

We are responsible for the foul drainage and surface drainage from properties. We are not responsible for highway drains, for example, or culverts and things like that. That is a local government responsibility, and it is something that the Welsh Government is looking at because there is obviously a lot of cross-over between the two and perhaps that arrangement could be made more effective. Our job is to get the dirty water away from people's properties, to drain roof and impermeable areas. The combined system that we have had for the best part of 100 years, we think, needs to be separated in order to be able to do that in the future.