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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?

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.