Liz
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I'm sure, Ciarán, that you find it hard to believe that anyone could be on call 24-7, seven days a week.
And when you do take your annual leave, you're still in that situation.
Like, I know on...
one half an hour of that morning we were getting ready, he became aware of a lady in her 80s who was recently widowed.
And nobody had called to her and she had no water.
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.
And he gives 100% service to the job that he does.
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.
Yes.
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
And the day that they organized for us, it was, I have to give them 100%.
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.
in just a lovely atmosphere of love.
He had to because his phone was ringing off the wall.
So he leaves the table, he's going to the phone.
And to be honest, my own blood pressure was up because I just said, here we are again, 24-7, 365.
And on this day as well, here we are.
Maybe Ciarán is a situation where there's a time frame and maybe we're on the very
start of the time frame.
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.