Water quality

Uisce Éireann has responsibility for public drinking water supplies. As part of that

process, the water quality test results for individual treatment plants – which can in

turn be associated with individual eircodes – are published. This dataset has potential

for examining whether variations in quality or composition are associated with health

outcomes. For example, public drinking water in Ireland has added fluoride to

promote better oral health. Households who have private water supplies, such as a

well, would not be included in this dataset but one or two survey questions could be

added to the primary caregiver questionnaire on the household’s water source and

whether they drink the tap water.

Air quality