Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion

Mr. Niall Gleeson:

Right now it is not impacting on capacity because we are putting €500 million into the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant and that will bring its capacity up to about 2.4 million population equivalent, PE, by the end of next year. It is hard to say, as it depends on population growth but within another three to four years, if the GDD project is not on the system we will have wastewater capacity challenges in the system. Likewise, with drinking water, we are working the water supply project through the system but we know we will be constrained on drinking water supply for the greater Dublin region towards the end of this decade or early into the next decade if we do not deliver that project. We have the projects and the capability but if I do not get those projects through the consenting process, then we will have a challenge in the greater Dublin area.

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