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

Noel Rock: I thank Mr. O'Leary. Given that we have just five minutes left I suggest a written response to Deputy Ó Broin's questions. The Deputy is not back in the room and it would be most appropriate to deal with them sequentially because I would not be aware of exactly the questions he asked. Can we get a written response from each-----

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

Noel Rock: Yes. If we could get written responses from each relevant body please. I will conclude with a question for Ms Farrelly. What prompted the off-site engineer to log in and look? Is the witness aware if the engineer was prompted by a person or an incident, or was it luck?

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

Noel Rock: Fair play to him. He deserves credit where it is due. Were it not for his diligence this would presumably have run on for hours longer, as the incident happened overnight. Can Mr. Gleeson talk about compensation? How much has been paid out in compensation by Irish Water since 2016?

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

Noel Rock: Can Mr. Gleeson supply them?

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

Noel Rock: I would like to know how to apply and the figures involved. This could add up quite quickly following an outage for 600,000 individuals.

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

Noel Rock: Based on the map currently available online, more customers seem to have been impacted by this outage. Areas of Dublin 9 which were not highlighted in the previous map are highlighted now. Were more customers impacted this time or was the previous map inaccurate?

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

Noel Rock: Very well. Deputy O'Brien is back, so perhaps the witnesses can give brief answers to his questions. October was a unique situation. We all accept that now. An alert was missed, a sequence of events happened, alarms were missed and so on. November was not so unique. Rain led to turbidity, which led to cryptosporidium treatments not being as successful as they would have been. Rain is...

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

Noel Rock: There will be a risk of this recurring until the second quarter of 2020.

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

Noel Rock: Of course, but there is an elevated risk at this point in view of all of the upgrades.

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

Noel Rock: I appreciate Mr. O'Leary's answers and his time. Perhaps Mr. Ó Coigligh could return to Deputy O'Brien's point in the closing two minutes, as the next committee is waiting.

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

Noel Rock: I am sorry, but I am under strict Oireachtas rules. Mr. Ó Coigligh has 15 seconds to answer.

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

Noel Rock: Mr. Ó Coigligh can give a "Yes" or a "No" answer in conjunction with the written submission.

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

Noel Rock: I thank all the witnesses for their time today. I appreciate them sharing their expertise at such a busy and acutely critical moment. I thank Irish Water, Fingal County Council and the Department for their time. We will resume on Thursday to discuss latent defects and the deposit guarantee scheme.

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

Noel Rock: I thank Deputy MacSharry for allowing me to go ahead of him, even though he has been for the whole meeting. I welcome Martin Hoey and his colleague in the Gallery. Mr. Hoey is an advocate of good public transport, much like Mr. Creegan and Ms Graham. I am sure they have been very familiar with his work for many years at this stage. Has the NTA ever sought automatic number plate...

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

Noel Rock: Brilliant. That is to be welcomed. What is the specific issue with its roll-out?

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

Noel Rock: Does the NTA have the resources it needs?

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

Noel Rock: It would be very useful for Christmas. This is why I keep harping on about it. Everybody recognises that it will be a very 24-hour type of month.

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

Noel Rock: Ms Graham might forgive me for interrupting her. I was asking that to see if we could get more. If we managed to grow from 10% more to 22% more, could the third iteration give us more again? This seems like the opportunity to ask for that.

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

Noel Rock: It is not wide enough.

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

Noel Rock: What will that sequence be? Mr. Gaston has said the NTA might start with two, but do we know which two?