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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Deputy, Mr. Munnelly wishes to come in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: The next questioner is Deputy Boland.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Has the Department looked at this area?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Okay. We will now take a short break.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: I call Deputy James Geoghegan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: I have a number of questions. I welcome the witnesses. As a Wicklow-based TD, I want to commend Uisce Éireann on the work it carried out in Arklow. It brought that huge project to completion six months ahead of schedule. It has dragged on for the past 20 years, if not longer, and held the town to ransom. We are now finally in a position to unlock the huge potential that Arklow has...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Will Mr. Laffey put a figure on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Did Mr. Laffey say another 300 or 400?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Are they on top of the 457?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: It is nearly doubling the figure. How could that have been missed in the initial process? That seems like an extraordinary-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: I know Mr. Laffey could not or would not put a figure on the number of households impacted but he did say some of these instances are maybe 20 or 25 houses in an estate, while others are smaller but in or around that. We could be looking at a population served by up to 10,000 people for all of those in the first tranche. That would probably double with the nuance that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Okay. You have said the timeframe to address all of these is about ten years, with the new tranche. That is unbelievable and shocking, to be honest. How does that impact the timeline in terms of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Mr. Laffey cannot or will not put a figure on how much that is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: That piece of work is ongoing. How many of them, if any, are subject to compliance enforcement from the EPA?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: They are not reported to the EPA. Is Mr. Laffey seriously concerned about any of them in terms of substandard-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: If Mr. Laffey is saying 25% are maintained or well maintained, then there are 75% that are not maintained.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: How many of them has Uisce Éireann taken in charge?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: Mr. Laffey said there had been ongoing engagements with the Department and the Minister for the previous two to three months in relation to this. Obviously, with the numbers that have been mentioned around dealing with those legacy cases and the announcement that we will be going down a similar model in terms of development by developers, there is an additional workload for Uisce...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: I am conscious of the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann (6 Nov 2025)
John Brady: There will be no additional needs in terms of staff complement.