Results 421-440 of 1,046,825 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Michael Ring)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: These would have been installed in the past ten years or so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Which stopped.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: None have been installed since then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: But on existing ones, no?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: What is the cost? How much does it cost to put them in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy might be able to help.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: How much did it cost to put in the 980,000 meters?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: No, I just wanted to know the cost. It was more than €300 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay, thanks for that. On the need for the meters, we talked to Mr. Laffey about that. Irish Water would probably say they are useful. The original intention was to use them for a charging system and we know what happened there. That hit the brick wall at the end of the cul-de-sac and stopped there. In terms of the use of these meters now, if there is a leak in my home, it would show...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: At the time, however, people who worked in water services were clear about this and examples were given of other countries where they do not install a meter in every house or do not have what are called block meters or neighbourhood meters for every 30, 50 or 100 houses. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Irish Water has a gadget with which someone can walk along where the mains are and if there is a leak, it will show. Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am told it is very high-tech that a leak can be shown by way of a signal from the gadget a person walks with.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The engineer who told me that is wrong. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Laffey is an engineer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: How long has he been in water services?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. We will beg to differ on that one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: They are used in other areas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: The point I am making is that there is no need for an individual meter in every house. It is literally €200 million down the drain. That is the point. It is wasted, gone, on the programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Not to mention the bad start it gave Irish Water. How much has Irish Water spent replacing pipes in the main system in each of the last three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I suppose I welcome that. Did I hear correctly that 37% is being lost through leaks? Is that correct?