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- Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I welcome everyone to our public meeting this afternoon. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the private meeting on 17 April 2024 and the public meeting on 18 April 2024. The minutes have already been approved in a virtual private meeting but for procedural reasons they must be approved in public. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. I will read some formal...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Public petition No. P00021/22 is on the Kiltimagh water scheme from Mr. Thomas Carney. Our next order of business is engagement on that public petition, which will be split into two sessions. In the first session from 1.45 p.m. to 2.45 p.m., we will hear from Mr. Thomas Carney, petitioner and campaigner, Kiltimagh and Cleragh-Lisduff group water scheme, and Mr, Alan Ivers, campaigner. In...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Carney. I ask Mr. Ivers for his opening statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Conway-Walsh.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: It is a question we can ask in the second part of the session when Mayo County Council will come before the committee.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Does Deputy Conway-Walsh wish to come in?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I just want to say a few words and then I will let Mr. Carney in. In this day and age, to have a whole community without water is a disgrace. I was on a county council and I know that all the talk is about clusters and bringing people from the big urban areas to rural areas, but people cannot settle in any area, rural or urban, without water. Like Mr. Ivers, I grew up in a family of 11...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Mr. Ivers gave us one of the reasons the groups were given for the delays. What is the witnesses’ view of the specific reasons for the delays? Would they lay the blame for the delays on Mayo County Council or Uisce Éireann? Did matters improve or get worse when Uisce Éireann was formed? They would have been dealing with Mayo County Council before Uisce Éireann was...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: The witnesses were given assurances that the grants were obtained and that the project had gone out to tender. When were they given those assurances?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I have no more questions. Unless anyone else is offering, I call Mr. Carney to make his closing statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I thank Mr. Carney and Mr. Ivers for attending the meeting. This discussion has been very beneficial and informative to the committee. The committee will consider the next steps after we talk to the other witnesses after the break. I would like to inform Mr. Carney and Mr. Ivers that they are welcome to stay online to view the second session but they will not be able to participate in that...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I extend a warm welcome to the following witnesses: from the rural water unit in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Mr. Douglas Kelly, principal officer, and Mr. Luke Varley, assistant principal officer; from Mayo County Council, Mr. John Condon, director of services, Mr. Michael McDermott, senior executive engineer, and Ms Bernadette Bourke, executive engineer on the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: For the sake of a few minutes, we will let Mr. Kelly finish his opening statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I now invite Mr. Joyce to make his opening statement.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I have just been made aware that Deputy Conway-Walsh needs to be in the Chamber. Does the Senator mind if I let her in before she goes?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I call Senator Craughwell.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I call Deputy Buckley.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Mr. Carney, we cannot let you into this session. You can view it but you cannot take part in it. Thank you all for coming in and giving your side of what is going on. As was said earlier, to have a community without water in 2024 is not acceptable, as far as I am concerned. Throughout the whole duration of the predicament, what duty of care was shown to the community by the county...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: I ask you because the petitioner has shown us a string of emails to which they say they did not get responses from across the three bodies. I am just trying to figure out why the emails would not have got replies.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on Kiltimagh Water Scheme: Discussion (25 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: Uisce Éireann?