Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion
Mr. Niall Gleeson:
The capacity registers are extremely important and a big development. Not only do they point out where we have capacity, but also where we do not have capacity and where we are looking to build infrastructure. I will make one point. We will work with developers on this. If we know infrastructure is going to be built in 2023, we will work with them because we know it takes time to build houses. We will give the go-ahead in 2022 because we know that their completion will be in line with our completion. We do work with them. We also work with developers on diversion of storm water so we can increase capacity. On a working level, with our connection and developer services teams we work very hard with developers to try to get those applications through and get the sites built. What one does not hear are the success stories, one just hears the negative ones.
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