Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is correct. The fault was found on Monday evening. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, has asked the EPA to provide him with a full report on the incident, its causes and the responses of Irish Water and Fingal County Council which operates the plant on its behalf. The way it works is that before a boil water notice can be lifted, there must be three rounds of clear samples, which can take a number of days to complete. At this stage, I cannot give people a guarantee that the notice will be lifted before the bank holiday weekend. It could take quite a number of days before it is lifted. I do not want to give a date today which I cannot necessarily stand over. The plant is relatively new. It is not at under- capacity or under-equipped. It is operated by Fingal County Council under a service level agreement with Irish Water. The Irish Water website suffered heavy traffic and was down for some time on Tuesday evening and again this morning. Irish Water has increased web server capacity to deal with web traffic during the incident. We extend our thanks to the media, including the RTÉ website, Dublin City Council's social media service and others who distributed information during the week. I am advised that no tankers are needed because the boil water notice is a precaution. The fault was detected during the course of Monday and corrected, but the EPA needed to identify exactly what had happened and the level of risk before issuing a boil water notice.

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