Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As I said, Uisce Éireann is working proactively to address the issues with water supply in Cork. The planned flushing of the network took place in the first week of July last year in the Ballyvolane area, including Ballyvolane Shopping Centre, Ballyvolane new road, Riverview Estate and Meadow Park Lawn, over a seven-week period. Those flushing works are part of Uisce Éireann's network improvement plan to address water discolouration issues. Uisce Éireann says it is seeing a positive trend in areas that have been flushed to date. It expects those works to lead to further improvements in water quality. Planned flushing has been completed at Spring Lane, Ballyvolane Road, Park Court, Meelick Park and Kempton Park. A substantial area of flushing in Cork North-Central, which encompasses areas off the Ballyvolane Road, commenced at the end of September last year and was set to take approximately two months to complete. Further works were to get under way on Wednesday, 30 October, with the planned flushing to take place at Mervue Crescent and so forth. The work is continuing and the investment is going to be allocated. Obviously, Uisce Éireann will programme that investment. Substantial billions of euro will be allocated to Irish Water in the context of the national development plan to deal with this issue and wider issues in terms of wastewater treatment plants and water supply for new housing developments.

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