Results 541-560 of 1,049,922 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:James O'Connor)

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

Brian Stanley: Do not escalate it; sort it.

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

Brian Stanley: The call centre operative is somebody on contract to you who does not have great English. I do not mean this in any negative way towards the people who come here, but I have spoken to people with very poor English about trying to identify a problem. It can be difficult to tell them about some townland such as Derreen in Durrow and trying to explain to them where that is. There are huge...

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

Brian Stanley: When a problem arises, when a water outage arises or where sewage is coming up in houses where the wastewater system has failed, there needs to be a quicker way of fixing it. I have given you two examples. I am painfully aware of the route you travel because I have been around and around it. I am saying that system is not efficient. It is a waste of money and you are throwing good money...

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

Brian Stanley: We will be discussing the work programme in the afternoon, as normal. The Deputy may want to put it as an item on the agenda.

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

Brian Stanley: That is good. I will talk to you later.

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

Brian Stanley: I am sorry, Deputy, but regarding that programme, we do have a representative here from the Department, Mr. Munnelly.

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

Brian Stanley: Yes, absolutely. To clarify, the Deputy mentioned the group scheme in Ramsgrange, but there are other schemes like that. They provided a great service. Many of them came into being in the 1950s and 1960s when local committees were formed.

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

Brian Stanley: Did it come from a group scheme? That is what I am trying to understand.

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

Brian Stanley: Was it a local authority scheme?

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

Brian Stanley: There is no sewer in the village at the moment but what about the water supply? Is that a group scheme?

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

Brian Stanley: If it is not under Uisce Éireann now, that would tell me that it was not taken in charge by the local authority, Wexford County Council.

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

Brian Stanley: There are two things. There is confusion here. We must separate out the two things. There is a water supply, either from the county council, a group scheme or a private well. When Irish Water entered the scene, the systems that were in the charge of the county councils were then taken on board automatically by Irish Water. They transferred over. To be helpful, I followed the exchange...

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

Brian Stanley: We will come to that in a second.

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

Brian Stanley: Is it correct that there is no wastewater system?

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

Brian Stanley: The issue here is the creation of the wastewater system.

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

Brian Stanley: Because the funding is coming from Mr. Munnelly's Department, that tells me that the water supply was a group scheme.

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

Brian Stanley: That needs to be clarified.

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

Brian Stanley: Absolutely. The piped water supply in the area-----

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

Brian Stanley: If it is a public scheme, it would be completed by Offaly County Council.

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

Brian Stanley: I am on automatic pilot.