Call for inquiry into full facts behind water crisis in Galway

AN Oireachtas inquiry should be set up urgently to establish how Galway’s water supply was allowed to become contaminated by a harmful parasite, it was argued yesterday.

Eamon Gilmore, Labour’s spokesman on the environment, said that a committee of TDs should investigate the mistakes and omissions that led to a modern city of 90,000 people being left with no clean drinking waters for five weeks.

He said that the inquiry by the Dáil Committee on the Environment should seek answers in person from council officials in Galway, councillors, Department of Environment staff as well as ministers for the Environment.