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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 13, 2014

QUESTION NO. 32

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

To ask the Chief Executive to request that Irish Water provide risk assessments and method statements for the installation of water meters to ensure that the risk of damage to private property is minimised due to water meter installation within South Dublin County Council area?

REPLY:

Irish Water (IW) is the National Water Authority. IW is responsible for the roll out of the national domestic metering programme and all related queries should be referred to IW.

Currently, Irish Water have indicated that they only have the resources to respond to motions/resolutions passed by the Full Council at their monthly meetings. It is not possible to provide responses to Council Questions from the 31 local authorities at their respective meetings.  Queries from individual councillors are dealt with via the dedicated Local Representative Support Desk which has been set up for this purpose.  For this reason, if a councillor wishes to progress a query, Irish Water advises him/her to submit same directly to the Local Representative Support Desk where it will be dealt with appropriately. This can be done via a dedicated elected member email localrepsupport@water.ie   or calling 1890 278 278 and asking for the Local Representative Support Desk.