Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise a very important issue that affects the community in Miltown Malbay. For the past two weekends, there has been no water. We all know that the international Willie Clancy festival is starting there this weekend, and it goes on for a week. It is one of the major international music festivals in the country. Tens of thousands of people will visit Miltown Malbay for the week, and the community have no confidence that the same problems will not arise again. Irish Water must urgently address this issue to give confidence to the people of Miltown Malbay and the people visiting that there will be an adequate supply of water and that during the Willie Clancy festival we will not see what happened for the past two weekends. The issue must be addressed once and for all, as it is totally unfair that the people of Miltown Malbay should be without water on an ongoing basis, as has happened in recent weekends. Perhaps the Leader might make contact with Irish Water to seek an urgent remedy to address this matter because it is completely unacceptable.