Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion

Ms Margaret Attridge:

Yes, there is, and that is part of the training we are doing with caretakers. We are increasing their awareness and knowledge of what are notifiable drinking water incidents and increasing their knowledge of bacterial compliance and crypto compliance. Part of the training will be to give examples of incidents and what to do in each case, and to make sure that each caretaker on each site knows what to do and how to respond.

There are standard operating procedures at quite a high level and most sites would have site-specific standard operating procedures. Part of our audit will be to check what is in place on each site.