139. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the impact of high aluminium levels in the public water supply in South Tipperary which has found to be as high as 12 times the prescribed EU level; the impact that this may have on animals and our food systems as animals have been drinking this water for some period of time; the guidance available from his Department in r…
Topics / Water Quality
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsWater Quality
62 questions from 22 TDs, between 5 February 2025 and 21 October 2026.
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408. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Department, agency, body or authority responsible for the publication of SI 79/2008 - Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008; the Department, agency, body or authority responsible for updating, amending, extending or abolishing the content of SI 79/2008 - Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008; and if he will make a statement …
409. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Department, agency, body or authority responsible for the publication of SI 79/2008 - Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008; the Department, agency, body or authority responsible for updating, amending, extending or abolishing the content of SI 79/2008 - Bathing Water Quality Regulations 2008 (details supplied); and if he wil…
448. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of projects approved from the €650 million allocated to his Department to support improvements in water quality as part of the €3.15 billion of the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund (ICNF); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51106/26]
451. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether a review was undertaken on the adequacy of current inter-agency arrangements between the HSE, the EPA and Uisce Éireann for drinking water incidents; if not, the reason no such review has taken place; and if a review is now planned, the timeline for same. [49287/26]
313. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures that are being undertaken to improve water quality in Cork Harbour and the River Lee catchment area, in light of recent Environmental Protection Agency findings regarding bathing water quality, nutrient pollution and other identified issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44336/26]
194. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the latest EPA report on water quality; the measures his Department is taking to improve water quality in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47915/26]
195. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the concerns (details supplied) of the substantial sums spent to improve Ireland's water quality yet despite this no progress is being made; the measures he is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47916/26]
196. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocated to improving Ireland’s water quality by his Department broken down by programme allocation, CapEx and OpEx in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47917/26]
433. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if all funding is in place to progress the new wastewater treatment system for Beaufort village, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47129/26]
567. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of installing real-time water quality monitoring infrastructure in the Blackwater catchment; if funding has been allocated to this project; the expected timeframe for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46944/26]
1792. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department or the HSE has assessed the public-health implications of repeated or prolonged manganese exceedances in drinking water supplies, as distinct from single exceedance incidents; and if not, whether such an assessment will now be commissioned. [41645/26]
1793. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal criteria used by the HSE to determine when a drinking water exceedance constitutes a potential danger to human health requiring public-health intervention. [41646/26]
1794. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has any protocol for assessing cumulative exposure to manganese in drinking water, particularly for infants, children, older persons and medically vulnerable groups. [41647/26]
1795. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has ever recommended an Irish-specific toxicological review of manganese exposure limits in drinking water; and if not, why not. [41648/26]
1796. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the absence of a separate national toxicological review of manganese exposure limits has been considered by her Department in the context of public-health protection and drinking water governance. [41649/26]
1797. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the formal escalation pathway exists between Uisce Éireann, the EPA and the HSE where repeated exceedances of drinking water contaminants occur over time.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41650/26]
1798. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the body that has final public-health accountability where repeated drinking water exceedances continue after regulatory or operational interventions. [41651/26]
1799. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any national review has been undertaken into the adequacy of current inter-agency arrangements between the HSE, EPA and Uisce Éireann for drinking water incidents. [41652/26]
1801. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department is satisfied that reliance on international manganese guidance, without a separate Irish toxicological review, is sufficient for Irish drinking water conditions [41654/26]
137. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department requested any formal review from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding repeated manganese exceedances in Cork city drinking water supplies since 2024. [40599/26]
246. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any analysis of cumulative exposure patterns arising from repeated manganese exceedances in drinking water supplies serving Cork city since 2024; and if she will provide details of any such analysis. [40592/26]
247. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has independently verified assurances provided by Uisce Éireann that consumers in Cork city are not being exposed to manganese concentrations above 80 µg/l on an ongoing basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40593/26]
248. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any epidemiological, toxicological, neurological or environmental-health expertise was consulted before determining that no population-level public health risk assessment was indicated in relation to repeated manganese exceedances in Cork city drinking water supplies. [40594/26]
249. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains any centralised dataset tracking repeated manganese exceedances by location, duration, recurrence frequency and estimated population exposure. [40595/26]