Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017
9:00 am
Ms Laura Burke:
I cannot speak to whether the Commission is satisfied with something. I can speak from the point of view of the agency and what was stated in the report. To answer the Deputy's question, there has been no dramatic change since then. Are we satisfied that legacy issues and historical underinvestment in urban wastewater have been addressed? We still say it is not happening at a fast enough pace and if Irish Water is to meet its commitment to invest an average of €326 million per year on urban wastewater infrastructure, it will need to invest approximately €1 billion in the period 2020 to 2021. We are following that as well.
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