Tipp FM
July 2, 2018
Emma Kennedy was on Tipp FM discussing the leakage crisis and the poor decisions that have led to hosepipe bans in Ireland.
RTE PRIME TIME
March 27 and April 24, 2018
Emma Kennedy appeared on Prime Time flagging the "misleading" statements made by Irish Water to justify the Shannon pipeline and its lack of a plan to prevent water outages in Dublin.
Using Irish Water's own data and nothing more than its existing unambitious leakage targets, the amount of water that will be recovered through fixing leaks in the coming years will offset the projected growth in Dublin's demand.
Emma Kennedy said on the show: “You can spend EUR1.3billion on the Shannon pipeline and after a few more outages Dubliners will quite rightly say “enough is enough, replace these pipes” at which point they will be replaced…. Why are you asking the taxpayer to pay twice?”.
"THE AWKWARD SQUAD DESERVE A FAIR HEARING" THETIMES
March 16, 2018
"Ms Kennedy’s analysis appears stringent. Dublin’s demand for water is dropping. Its water problems come from the fact that only 43 per cent of the treated water is actually used. More than half leaks away through its crippled Victorian pipe system."
"The Victorian pipes of Dublin will eventually have to be fixed and Ms Kennedy’s argument is a simple one: why pay twice?"
TODAY WITH SEAN O'ROURKE, RTE RADIO 1
March 7, 2018
Emma Kennedy flagged that the key issue undermining Dublin's water supply is its ancient water pipes and that Irish Water's leakage targets are extremely unambitious.
"SHANNON PIPELINE: IS IT THE BEST WAY TO SPEND EUR1.2BILLION?", IRISH TIMES
February 10, 2018
“You do not have to scratch the surface very deeply to discover that a project of the scale of the proposed Shannon Project is no longer needed" ... “It is very poor governance to deem Irish Water the appropriate arbiter of whether or not the Kennedy analysis is valid” ....
“Leaky supply pipes are running alongside sewage pipes that are leaking too. Irish Water accepts ‘water ingress’ is happening.” In Kennedy’s analysis, “that means raw sewage”.