Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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546. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water are part of an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46224/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Since 1 January 2014, Irish Water has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. Irish Water has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public representatives. They may be contacted via email at or by telephone on 1890 578 578.

I have on this occasion raised the issue with Irish Water and I have been informed that the utility has no formal associations with any international bodies or institutions to date. However, Irish Water is in contact with and avails of technical information from international sources in the course of its operations.

Irish Water professional staff, in a personal capacity, are also members of various international professional and technical bodies in their relevant specialist fields.