Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In recent times a number of towns across County Galway have experienced complete water outages or boiled water notices. Irish Water, in engaging with public representatives at national and local level to inform us why the issues have arisen and what is being done to resolve them and to assure us these issues will be avoided in the future, has not been forthcoming. I know from talking to colleagues here that the experience is similar across the country. I urge the Taoiseach to contact the CEO of Irish Water and ask him to put in place a formal protocol of engagement with public representatives at local and national level when such issues arise. It is important we are able to inform our constituents of what exactly is happening and what work is being done to resolve issues in the shortest possible timeframe.

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