Results 541-560 of 1,047,687 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh OR speaker:Paul Donnelly)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Yes. I will call Deputy O’Connor now, as I know he has another engagement.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Laffey for that clarification because it was raised yesterday in the Dáil.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I want to revert to some questions I have. We know that data centres are using a lot of electricity. How much water do they need? What percentage of your water is it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay, so it is not huge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will move on to the issue of local representation. I served on a county council, as have some of the members who are present. I think Deputy Murphy and I served on county councils when water services were under the remit of local authorities. It was fairly satisfactory because if there was a local problem, it would go to a local engineer and the problem would be identified and resolved...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We were running around in rings for a year, as were dozens of other people, including those in the call centre for which Uisce Éireann is paying €15 million per year, and the billing department. There are layers of people involved in this stage, but this has to be simpler. There has to be a straight line of communication and it has to be short. The longer you make the line of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Fifteen years ago, I would have had that sorted in two days by Laois County Council.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I accept that Uisce Éireann inherited this problem and I also give credit for the general improvement of water quality in the Laois area. Somebody will hear me saying this and they will contact me tomorrow and say you are wrong about their area, but that is my experience from talking to residents in different part of the county. I want to acknowledge that. This particular problem I am...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: What I have just outlined is an appalling waste of money and time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We are complaining about this for ten years. Councillors have complained about it for ten years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: Not these two scenarios, but scenarios like them because it is clearly identified. In fact, I told Phil Hogan, before it was ever set up, that this was going to happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: But to get to that point, Mr. Gleeson-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: We have covered all of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Uisce Éireann (26 Sep 2024)
Brian Stanley: You need to be able to identify the problems quickly. In a lot of cases, water is wasted and everyone agrees and is with you on the need to conserve water and improve water quality. We need to be able to identify the problem quickly and sort it quickly without having to go around the world to do it. That is the problem.
- 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.