Results 481-500 of 1,049,566 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ruairi Ó Murchú OR speaker:Anne Rabbitte OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Catherine Murphy)

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

Catherine Murphy: What is the CRU target?

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

Catherine Murphy: Does Irish Water have an equivalent with regard to what the leakage rate would be? If the representatives are telling us about leakage rates, they must have an idea what that is. Is it 25% or is it more?

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

Catherine Murphy: Will Irish Water reach that target?

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

Catherine Murphy: Even the best systems in the world see leakages, given how there will always be bursts, and I accept that there is a point below which it is not economical to repair them, for example, if the leaks are very small and a large area has to be dug up to get to them, but despite the growth in the greater Dublin area, there is an absence of a new supply. We are constantly told that we are on a...

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

Catherine Murphy: Mr. Gleeson is saying that, unless there is a new supply, we will be at a critical point within six years.

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

Catherine Murphy: I presume Uisce Éireann advises the Department on an ongoing basis of the critical situation that the greater Dublin area is in.

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

Catherine Murphy: Has Uisce Éireann received an assurance about investment? Six years is no time when planning a big project to bring water on board. It is a tiny amount of time. What are the assurances?

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

Catherine Murphy: May I contribute again later?

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

Catherine Murphy: There was a legal dispute between Abtran and Irish Water. The contract was concluded and a new entity won the tendering process. Can Mr. Gleeson remember what the cost of that legal dispute was and how it concluded?

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

Catherine Murphy: I ask Mr. Gleeson to come back to me on that. Uisce Éireann uses one consultancy firm, Capita Customer Solutions. What does it do for Uisce Éireann?

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

Catherine Murphy: I presume that includes outages. What else does it do?

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

Catherine Murphy: What if somebody was looking for a connection?

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

Catherine Murphy: We hear from the construction sector all of the time that it has difficulty dealing with Uisce Éireann.

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

Catherine Murphy: What is the cost of that annual contract and over what period of time is it?

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

Catherine Murphy: Over what period of time?

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

Catherine Murphy: It will then go back out to tender.

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

Catherine Murphy: Has Uisce Éireann had reason to go to the State Claims Agency for any issue in the last couple of years?

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

Catherine Murphy: I will move back to the issue of leak reduction in the greater Dublin area. The year 2030 is a critical point. Will the leak reduction and modifications in, for example, storage facilities be sufficient on their own to meet the projected growth and the current need? Is a new supply essential?

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

Catherine Murphy: We have had a pretty awful year weather-wise. It strikes me that if we get a summer where there is more than a week of nice weather, there is a hosepipe ban. Some of this relies very heavily on the weather. In critical periods, for example, in 2030, if we had a nice dry summer, we could end up on that trajectory.

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

Catherine Murphy: What kind of income did Uisce Éireann have in the last year from development contributions?