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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: This is a major inconvenience for hundreds of thousands of people. A precautionary notice has been issued. The treatment process had begun on a portion of the water that went into a very large system but had not been completed. We believe the boil water notice is temporary. I will talk through the temporariness we hope to see. The testing is under way. The HSE needs to get three clear...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We estimate that at this stage less than 15% of the water in the system in the area concerned might be affected, but we do not know where it is because of how the system works.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: We issued the boil water notice because of a health concern. We want to ensure people know that their drinking water is safe and clean.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I will come to that in a moment. In this instance we cannot be sure of that. Because we cannot be sure, as a precautionary measure on the advice of the HSE, we have issued a boil water notice to these households. As it happens, my senior team and I met Irish Water's senior management team on Monday to discuss a whole host of issues such as monitoring systems, capital investment plans, etc.,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I have been in constant contact with Irish Water.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My officials have been in constant contact with Irish Water, the HSE and the local authorities-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I was informed by my officials-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: -----as soon as they were informed by Irish Water.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Since then we have put in place the plans to notify the public, which is most important part here.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for the question. I will speak to the local authority about whether there have been unnecessary delays in completing the roadworks which can have a very large impact on businesses. Rates alleviation and rates bills are matters for councillors who must decide if they want to target particular parts of the county to support certain businesses at certain times or encourage a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Different local authorities operate different disregards in different ways when it comes to calculating income for persons who qualify for social housing. There are different thresholds in different parts of the country. Each local authority will examine household income and, depending on the types of social welfare payment of which people are in receipt, disregard them to make sure we are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the Deputy for raising the question. I am aware of his commitment to this issue in particular and I thank him and his constituents for their patience in terms of having it resolved. We did allocate additional money this year, following on from a previous Government commitment to the scheme. It does not need to go back to Cabinet. I can confirm to the Deputy that the scheme has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: As a key initiative of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) is designed to fund the provision of public off-site infrastructure to relieve critical blockages and enable housing developments to be built on key sites at scale. Infrastructure being funded under LIHAF includes access roads, distributor roads,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (23 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: My Department’s approach, based on advice to date, is that the economic functions of the Land Development Agency (LDA) do not give rise to an advantage either to the LDA or other parties under State Aid rules. The General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019 was developed taking account of legal advice in relation to State Aid.   The European...

Report of the Committee on Procedure on Dáil Divisions: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Address the issue.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: Unfortunately, the ongoing boil water notice continues to cause serious disruption, worry and major inconvenience for more than 600,000 people and for many businesses in the areas affected in Dublin, Meath and Kildare. It important to note however, that the problem at the water treatment plant was identified and the fault is now resolved. The water treatment plant is now, I am informed,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Deputy is correct that more information is needed, and that is why we are carrying out an investigation. When it has been completed we will be able to talk in detail about exactly what happened. I want to stress that this is a precautionary boil water notice. The water that went into the system was not dirty; it had been treated. The cleaning and purification process had commenced,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Supply Contamination (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: It is. Minor incidents happen in operating plants, be they water or production plants, all the time and are corrected very quickly. Once what happened was noticed and the plant was shut down, the EPA and HSE had to be brought in in order to carry out the testing needed to determine whether there was an issue, the scale of the likely public health concern and whether things needed to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: I propose to take Questions Nos. 350 and 351 together. The Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF) was designed to activate housing supply by putting in place the enabling public infrastructure necessary to ensure that large scale development could take place on key sites in urban areas of high housing demand. Approval was given for 30 projects under LIHAF in 2017 and these...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (24 Oct 2019)

Eoghan Murphy: The Programme for a Partnership Government recognises the potential role that credit unions can play in housing finance and supported the efforts of the Registrar of Credit Unions at the Central Bank to gradually lift current lending restrictions as appropriate, including for housing. Credit Union bodies have set out proposed means by which funding could be provided by Credit Unions to...