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Liz

👤 Speaker
641 total appearances

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

I'm sure, Ciarán, that you find it hard to believe that anyone could be on call 24-7, seven days a week.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And when you do take your annual leave, you're still in that situation.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

Like, I know on...

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

one half an hour of that morning we were getting ready, he became aware of a lady in her 80s who was recently widowed.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And nobody had called to her and she had no water.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And that, because my husband is so dedicated, that broke his heart because they're the people, anybody even on the line where he and the areas that he works, they literally nearly know him personally.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And he gives 100% service to the job that he does.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

But as I said, with the amount of money that's been poured from the top, the leak, there was a leak on the money.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

Yes.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

and it wasn't somebody higher above him who was on better wages it was him it was him on top of the stress of just trying to make the day the most important day of his life since he got married himself I hope you know and the following morning when we were so elated having had the most wonderful day in the Falls Hotel in Ennis Diamond the most amazing venue yeah and

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And the day that they organized for us, it was, I have to give them 100%.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And the following day, when you sit down to try and review the day you had and feel so happy, and you go back on all the little snippets of the day, and the phone is ringing in the background, and he's leaving the table where I'm doing breakfast in the most beautiful weather outdoors.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

in just a lovely atmosphere of love.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

He had to because his phone was ringing off the wall.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

So he leaves the table, he's going to the phone.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And to be honest, my own blood pressure was up because I just said, here we are again, 24-7, 365.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

And on this day as well, here we are.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

Maybe Ciarán is a situation where there's a time frame and maybe we're on the very

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

start of the time frame.

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"I burst into tears because I couldn't boil the ham" Uisce Éireann Problems

But what I would fear is that the people, as I said, the caretakers who are presently part of the council system, that the Irish Water appears to me to be more of a private company with a private company profit attitude.