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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Pat Casey: I welcome from Irish Water Mr. Jerry Grant, managing director, and Ms Trudy Higgins, environment strategy lead; from the Commission of Energy Regulation, CER, Dr. Paul McGowan and Ms Sheenagh Rooney; and from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Mr. Dara Lynott, deputy director general; Mr. David Flynn, programme manager, and Mr. Noel Byrne, senior manager. We will engage with them on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

...innovative solutions in order to come up with cost effective ways of addressing these problems. To summarise, Irish Water is committed to delivering on the plans we have set out to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and to the Commission on Energy Regulation, CER, for the resolution of all these cases together with all the other issues involved. We make the point that there are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Dr. Paul McGowan: The CER is the economic regulator for Irish Water in the provision of its public water and wastewater services. Our primary role in this regard is to protect the interests of customers of Irish Water. There are a number of routes by which we do that, but of primary relevance to today's hearing is that we approve Irish Water's proposed water charges plan. In that regard,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

.... On wastewater, we have assessed and licensed 1,047 sites and there are a further 21 currently at assessment stage. In our role as environmental regulator, we work closely with our colleagues in CER and we have a memorandum of understanding with CER in that regard. I distributed some copies of the presentation to the members. Our role involves the monitoring and supervision of urban...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

...million a year. That dropped off in the intervening years. It has recovered since 2013 up to approximately €200 million. The plans set out here are back up to €300 million a year. Irish Water or CER are probably better placed to talk about the individual figures. It is important from our point of view in the EPA that those plans are delivered on and that money is made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Breach of EU Urban Wastewater Directive: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Ms Sheenagh Rooney: I will address the query about non-domestic tariffs. As the economic regulator, the CER oversees the approval of Irish Water's tariffs for non-domestic customers and also their connection charges. At the moment we are operating under a business as usual process, as has been indicated, so we are currently living with the existing local authority charges. However, we...