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

Catherine Murphy: In terms of the new entity, it was not going to be 31 local authorities all doing their own thing but to centralise things, and I always felt this was mad because the pipes are all over the country and not in one location. It could end up costing additional money to rent offices by virtue of the fact there is a new entity. Is that the case?

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

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Gleeson have a projection of the organisation's needs when it comes to space?

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

Catherine Murphy: I ask that the committee be provided with an outline of that, please.

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

Catherine Murphy: I will come back to the leakage rate. I will read from an article that states: "The CRU said the figures indicated that Uisce Éireann was no longer on track to achieve its target of reducing public side leakage by 161 million litres per day over a five-year period by the target date of the end of 2024." Is that still the situation?

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

Catherine Murphy: What is Irish Water's leakage rate now?

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

Catherine Murphy: What is the target?

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?