Garret Ahearn (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise an issue I have raised numerous times in this House, which relates to Irish Water and if we could have a debate with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, about it. There is outage after outage of water services in Clonmel. People are at their wits' end. People are coming to and ringing our office the whole time. Sometimes, it might take four or five days to solve the problem and then it is gone again in two days. Clonmel has the most outages and disturbances of water services in the country. The communication between Irish Water and public representatives, particularly councillors, is almost non-existent. It is just not acceptable any more. We need the Minister to come to the House to explain exactly why Irish Water cannot solve the problems in Clonmel. I am aware of an elderly gentleman who has to go to another house to be washed and cleaned because he does not have a water supply in his area. It is the most important issue in Clonmel. I would like it to be prioritised.