Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Mattie McGrath warns that South Tipperary has reached a water crisis after 58 supply interruptions since January affecting 11,000 customers, and nearly 28,000 homes and businesses placed on a boil water notice in a single week. He details repeated outages in Tipperary town and households left without water for cooking, washing and caring for grandchildren, and directly criticises Irish Water.

Chapters:
00:00 Overview of the crisis
00:12 Supply interruption statistics
00:25 Boil water notices and Tipperary town
00:35 Constituent testimony
00:50 Accusations against Irish Water
01:08 Government response

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