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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The fines go directly to Uisce Éireann as opposed to the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Has there been any kind of foresight work on this? Are we expecting fines to come down the track?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I have a quick question on leakage rates. I want to ask about international comparators. I see that Uisce Éireann went from 46% in 2018 to just under 37% in 2022. I hope that progress has continued into 2024. Will Mr. Gleeson give me an international comparator, such as Denmark or the Netherlands, where I can compare like with like in terms of the leakage rates?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Will Mr. Gleeson give me a monetary figure for that? Will he also put it in terms of the number of litres lost from the system? Each litre comes with a treatment cost and an energy cost. Will he give me a ballpark figure of essentially how much money we are leaking into the ground because of the poor pipe network?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Is there not a way to account for the losses? Could Mr. Gleeson not even give me a ballpark figure?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Chair?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Brian Stanley: There will be a second round. Will Mr. McCarthy clarify one point the Deputy asked about? He wanted an answer to the question about the highest bonus paid. It was said to be in the region of €30,000. Will Mr. McCarthy say what was the highest bonus paid?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Brian Stanley: Will Mr. McCarthy get some of the staff to check it while the meeting is proceeding?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)

Brian Stanley: We will have a second round of questions. What percentage of homes on the mains supply system have modern meters?

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?