I will stick to two areas, namely, accountability and communication. On a rating from one to ten, both of them are one. There have been ten years of a boil water notice in Whitegate, east Cork, with diabolical communications, even with me as a public representative. Some other speakers have mentioned that already. There is zero accountability and no information any time you can actually get an email to Uisce Éireann, even one offering suggestions. Imagine people being on a boil water notice for ten years, including people with medical conditions and complex needs, without an ounce of compensation. We tried to sue the company. I wrote to every constituent to say they could claim €30. We got zero accountability. Ten days would be the average waiting time for someone who reports a leak. That is if they can get through to Uisce Éireann. The Acting Chairman, Deputy Aindrias Moynihan, was a county councillor at the time of one of the county development plans. Uisce Éireann, then Irish Water, told Cork County Council it would not develop Monard in Cork because it refused to put in water and sewage. That is going back a long time. It is a dictatorship. The company has rules of its own. Terence Coskeran was a gentleman in Tipperary who came to the petitions committee in the last term after dealing for ten years with Uisce Éireann, which would not take over his estate of six houses. Tipperary County Council was absolutely amazing. The memorandum of understanding was signed but then Uisce Éireann came along and would not recognise it. It was the first time we had the power to call Uisce Éireann into the petitions committee. Within ten days, after nearly ten years of conflict, that gentleman's water solutions were sorted. It is the only way to bring these matters to justice. Uisce Éireann is a money pit, is not fit for purpose and gives us no accountability, even in communications. It definitely needs to be pulled in and rigorously investigated. We need accountability on this.

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