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:
It is a very different model now. Local authorities are involved in all of the planning for roads, water and would be liaising with the ESB, so we would not be able to act unilaterally anyway. That said, we can look at the CRU model in the context of first-mover disadvantage, strategic infrastructure investments and the fine line between Irish Water putting in strategic infrastructure and putting in a pipe that facilitates only one developer and could be seen as subsidisation. There is work we could do there that might help.
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