Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his response. I am concerned by some of the information we have been given here. As my colleague, Deputy Lahart, noted, the Minister's response indicates that the supplies in the greater Dublin area will not be resolved by the end of the week. What the Minister has said is he cannot give an assurance to the people of my constituency as to when the issue will be resolved. I am sure the Minister will be fully aware of how significant an issue this is but it could become an extremely significant issue if it drags on much beyond the end of this week. We need more than political responses. We need our constituents to be apprised of when the issue will be resolved in the greater Dublin area and, in particular, in my constituency. It is having a significant impact on businesses, as well as domestic houses. Hobart's café in Ranelagh, which the Minister will know well, was in the media yesterday stating the difficulty it was experiencing in keeping a business going in the absence of water. It is imperative that the Minister tries to get solutions to this as quickly as possible or else he will lose the run of it.

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