Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will come to that in a moment.

In this instance we cannot be sure of that. Because we cannot be sure, as a precautionary measure on the advice of the HSE, we have issued a boil water notice to these households.

As it happens, my senior team and I met Irish Water's senior management team on Monday to discuss a whole host of issues such as monitoring systems, capital investment plans, etc., before this was identified. It was part of a regular engagement I have with Irish Water to ensure we know exactly what is happening across the operation of the agency.

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