Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will raise my favourite hobby horse, namely, Uisce Éireann. It was raised previously by other colleagues. The Minister is obviously familiar with the situation in Cork city, where there is discoloured and contaminated water on a continual basis. TDs in the Cork constituencies attended a meeting two weeks ago with Uisce Éireann. It became clear that Uisce Éireann is trying to divert resources into solving the city's ongoing issues. The replacement of cast-iron pipes there is going to take decades. Let us be straight about it. In the short term Uisce Éireann has identified other water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants in the city on which it can do some mitigating works. It will not be ready to do that until quarter 2 of 2025. It is diverting reources from other projects to try to get those works done. I cannot stress how important it will be to ensure people in Cork city get proper drinking water. We need to ensure the upcoming budget provides an increase in funding for Uisce Éireann to do that.

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