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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The respondents can answer because they are very professional and they know how to do their job. What I am saying is that we had an incident where we were told that an alarm system was not responded to over an extended period of time. That had a negative impact on 615,000 people. I would just like to know how that can happen. That is an important question to ask. We got an update on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: When was the purchase order placed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: The Chairman said it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Perhaps Deputy O'Brien's questions could be answered on his return, if that suits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I have three quick questions - I realise the Senator has not got in yet. The first thing is to go back to the question of the alarm. The EPA report in March indicated an issue with responding to the alarms. I am interested to know how Irish Water and Fingal County Council responded. What was done to try to ensure that that issue of non-response to the alarm that occurred in March, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that in the capital at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Will it be compatible then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: But that will be four years away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: And on the bottled water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Does Irish Water have the same self-selecting methodology for vulnerable customers for bottled water as it does for the text messages, or is there some criterion a person must meet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Affecting the Quality of Water: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What would be vulnerable? The public will be watching this. Who should be ringing Irish Water?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Policy Reviews (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the draft national policy for architecture and the built environment. [44974/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties Data (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties in counties Cavan and Monaghan in tabular form; and the existing or planned initiatives he intends to implement to assist local authorities in the counties to make vacant homes habitable. [45630/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that okay? I am substituting for Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witness for the presentation. Mr. Creegan will know that I and my Dublin colleagues have been engaging very closely with the NTA on the first draft of the plan and in the consultation process. We engage in that process in good faith and are hoping to see significant change. For the part of the city I know best, there have been very substantial and some positive changes in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: A portion of the capital funding is going to that versus acquiring the bus corridors and the CPO costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Cottier for her presentation. I welcome the creation of the Construction Defects Alliance. A number of members have worked with homeowners over the past five or six years. The first thing that always stands out is that people feel lost and unsure of what to do. They do not know whether they should pay significant sums of money for legal advice, and they are very scared about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am almost done. I have a very short question to put after I make this point. I would like the State to explore with the Attorney General whether it is possible to pursue directors of companies who are still trading, although maybe not through the same legal entity. There will be instances where the developer cannot be pursued so there must be a fund, whether it is raised through industry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Latent Defects: Discussion (7 Nov 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: With public money.