Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is washing his hands of rural water and Irish Water is becoming more unaccountable. As we speak some communities in Mayo are going without a reliable supply of drinking water, communities like Downpatrick Head, Aghinish, Murrisk, Clearagh, and Enagh Beg. Uisce Éireann is just not co-operating with the local authorities. The sureties are being wrongly charged. Other community water schemes have been left in limbo for years, such as Aghadoon, Carn, Crimlin-Ross, Foxpoint, Lecarrow, Pullathomish, Newtownwhite, Derreens, Crumpaun, Ballysakeery, Ballyholan and Castlereagh. Debt builds up in these water schemes all the time. That debt is used by Irish Water as an excuse not to take the schemes in charge. Years are going by and no progress is being made. The Minister needs to stop blaming the group water schemes. The unaccountability of Irish Water is completely unacceptable.

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