On the latest scandal involving Irish Water (Uisce Éireann) in Cork
The President of The Workers Party, Cllr. Ted Tynan, has condemned the latest revelations involving Irish Water in Cork and its poisoning of the city’s water supply.
The latest scandal involves an exchange of correspondence between the HSE and Irish Water in which the health authority raises concerns on Irish Water’s absence of notices to the public, whenever they have released excess toxic substances into the water mains. Both the city’s Northside and Southside water supplies have been affected.
The HSE discovered, for example, that four times the maximum amount of manganese permitted under EU public health regulations have been released on numerous occasions by Uisce Éireann into the city’s water supply without any warnings, whatsoever, to the public! Excess manganese causes developmental issues for children and also impacts on the physiology of adults.
The Workers Party has been campaigning, relentlessly, for the total abolition of Irish Water/Uisce Éireann and the return of management of local water supplies to Local Authorities and the reinstatement of the workers with their collective history and knowledge and expertise and their impeccable record in delivering safe public drinking water.
“We are calling for the total abolition of Irish Water and the return of public water supplies to the way they had been operating successfully and to the highest standards by the Council workers up until the 2010s,” Cllr. Tynan said.