Results 501-520 of 1,047,183 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Máiría Cahill OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Catherine Martin) in 'Committee meetings'
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The representatives spoke about how they prioritise issues. A colleague of ours and a former member of the Committee of Public Accounts, Deputy Catherine Connolly, yesterday raised the issue of a potentially serious problem with the pipes carrying wastewater from east Galway to the estuary of the River Corrib. Is there a planned project there? She has drawn attention to something that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: It was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Gleeson know the percentage of staff who transferred across from the water services section of the local authorities to Uisce Éireann?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Gleeson have the overall percentage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Overall, does Ms Attridge have any idea? I presume it was different at the beginning. Uisce Éireann is coming into a different relationship with staff now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Institutional memory in this case is incredibly important because the pipes are underground and people have knowledge of where the problems are located.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Are some of the 2,300 going to exit? It may be a small number. Does Uisce Éireann know what the number will be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: But Mr. Gleeson is quite hopeful that he will get a few hundred. There will still be a residual of people who stay within the local authority, whose expertise is in water services. What relationship will Uisce Éireann have afterwards to at least avail of their institutional memory or will there be a complete severance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: They have rights and entitlements. We understand that. The local authorities will end up with perhaps 1,500 staff from water services who will be deployed into something else because they will not have a function any longer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to come back to the situation in Kildare. I have a useful document that was compiled by a very good citizen journalist, Treasa Keegan. She made a freedom of information application and put together a document that gives us a profile of Kildare. Some 250,000 people live there. There was a good leak detection system before the water services ever transferred. It seems to have...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Did that happen because the developers felt it was more expedient for them to do it because they were waiting for Irish Water? We can only take what people are telling us about the difficulties with connections. Is that likely to have been the reason?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I cannot get my head around this. Was the amount understated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Is there a sanction if there is interference?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I would hope that Uisce Éireann would be nimble enough to ensure there is no need to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Uisce Éireann has an external auditor, namely, Deloitte. That is presumably for the commercial side.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: What is the cost of the audit for 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I want to finish pursuing the issue of water that has not been accounted for. Uisce Éireann has a target to meet and is making some progress but a lot more is needed. I presume Uisce Éireann has mapped it out. It would not be making that progress if it was not doing so. What are the worst areas of the country in terms of water that has not been accounted for? What are the top...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: If looking at the greater Dublin area, that is the like of Fingal where there are a lot of new pipes. In County Meath there is a mixture of new and older pipes and County Kildare is pretty much the same. There is also County Wicklow and south Dublin where there are a lot of new pipes and a lot of development. It does not have the same profile as Dublin city. Is the city still the worst...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: During the Celtic tiger period there was not enough oversight. If shortcuts were taken, they were taken underground where they would not be seen. I am not surprised this is turning up as an issue. What is the oversight now? Does Irish Water have oversight? What amount does it put into oversight to make sure we will not see a repeat of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Laffey cannot answer the question I asked. In a roundabout way he has said that there are not five or ten top projects.