Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

A number of businesses in the Clanbrassil Street, St. Nicholas Quarter, Church Street and York Street areas of Dundalk received a text message at 10 a.m. today from Irish Water, telling them essential maintenance works would be taking place between 8 o'clock tomorrow and 8 o'clock on Monday and that this may cause disruption. I would be calling for a different intervention had I not managed to contact Irish Water. I ask the Minister if anything can be done to mitigate this. Obviously, the businesses and the town centre manager who have contacted me are incredibly worried. This is a busy time with many communion and wedding bookings. Salons have been told to close if they cannot access water themselves.

Irish Water is saying that a random sample was taken, elevated levels of manganese were found and it has to flush out the system. Is there a possibility of doing this at a different time? This brings up the wider issue of manganese levels in our water which is one that we need to address. I have dealt with Irish Water on this and many other cases.

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