Water Quality
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-17
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Thomas Gould (SF), Cork North-Central

The Minister of State named out areas and I will give a few more. Ballyvolane and Gurranabraher have had a problem for more than a year - 15 months. People in Ballyvolane have sent me photographs of filthy water. You would want to see what is coming out of people's taps. The Minister of State mentioned a couple of areas such as Dublin Hill. I was contacted by a resident in Dublin Hill today or yesterday and I was also contacted by someone in Blarney Street earlier on today because I told people I was raising the issue in the House. It is not good enough. Uisce Éireann is not doing its job. Millions are being spent and the quality of the drinking water is affected.
I live on Cathedral Road and my neighbours are telling me they cannot use the water. They cannot have showers in the morning before they go to work or college. I know of a pensioner in Dublin Hill who has to get water delivered because she cannot carry it up the hill. She does not trust the drinking water. We have families who have to get bottled water for their kids because they do not trust it. Even when the water is clean, people have told me it does not taste the same. I have been on to the EPA and the HSE-----

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Sitting date: 2024-01-17