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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I thank Deputy Connolly. I will read the script I have been provided and then come back in with some other responses. I wrote to Deputy Connolly last week on foot of a question on policy or legislation to the Taoiseach. The supply of public water and provision of water services in general are matters for Uisce Éireann in the first instance. Uisce Éireann has statutory...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There are two siphons under the Corrib and we are saying one of them has been reported as defective.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will ask Uisce Éireann to investigate that. The tankering of sewerage is unacceptable in this day and age. We have a way forward here in terms of the longer-term plan. I mentioned the 2025-29 investment cycle in my response to Deputy Cairns. That will be critically important. We took questions from Deputy Connolly last night on housing development in Galway. This issue will...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for his comments. This is of critical importance because the growth of Galway, which I believe should be done in a sustainable way, cannot happen. The population is not growing at the rate expected because of the failure to remediate defective infrastructure. I heard the Minister of State say he will go back to Irish Water. I wish him good luck because Irish Water has...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I have outlined the significant progress that has been made by Uisce Éireann in dealing with the deficits in Galway city and the wider area. I was not aware there were two siphons, as Deputy Connolly has said. My understanding from the response I gave the Deputy last week was that one had been addressed. We will ask Uisce Éireann.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There are two siphons and one of them is the major one that has been highlighted.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: We will ask Uisce Éireann to come back with a more comprehensive reply on that, if that is of assistance to the Deputy. The opportunity that is there in terms of the public consultation on future needs is really important. It is important that the 2025-29 capital investment cycle identifies the needs for the growth of the greater Galway area and ensures they are included in the capital...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: To be helpful, could the Minister of State come back with commentary on the reports that have been carried out for Uisce Éireann, including the one I mentioned and all other recent reports it has commissioned on this issue?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: We will request that.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 9.58 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 10 a.m. Sitting suspended at 9.58 a.m. and resumed at 10 a.m.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate the reply and accept that there has been an infrastructure deficit over years, which means that Uisce Éireann is playing catch-up. Issues like this are concrete and need to be addressed. In addition, this case illustrates how communities do not feel heard. The local community and the EPA have raised concerns about this plant for nearly 15...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Malcolm Noonan: I will do so. While I appreciate plans have been drawn up in the past, going back ten or 15 years, as I said the standards are such now and into the future, as the recast takes place, that the directive will be in force by the end of 2025. Member states will have to have it transposed by 2030, as far as I understand. That will create quite onerous targets in terms of not just tertiary but...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Wastewater Treatment
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply and taking a hands-on approach. I am afraid my praise stops at this point because we will discuss sludge. It is very difficult to make out what is happening in Galway. We have a water treatment plan, which is good. It is working and it is fine, but there has been no upgrading of anything since 2006. I have a reply from the Minister of State...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for reading the script. It does not really address my concerns. I appreciate he is not the direct Minister but 15,000 gardaí - when are we going to get realistic? There was a report on Dublin city centre recently where they want 1,000 more gardaí. It is laughable. There are gardaí looking to retire all the time. I know of gardaí who are now...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy again on behalf of the Minister for raising this important matter. When I take a Topical Issue, I look at the question and try to understand what is behind the issue.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate that.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: The question was fairly broad in that related to Tipperary and Clare, which is a big area. I will take back the specific issues the Deputy mentioned around Nenagh, Roscrea and Newport and long-term sick leave. The issue around leaving stations vacant comes up in my area as well. Sometimes, the senior garda in the area says they are between a rock and a hard place. People want to see...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Wastewater Treatment
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)
Holly Cairns: Since being elected, wastewater treatment has been a recurring issue raised by communities across Cork South-West. I am focusing on the issue of the wastewater treatment plant in Ballydehob this morning but almost every area of west Cork is feeling the pressure from crumbling water infrastructure. From an environmental and health perspective, the very least people should expect is the...