Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community
Na Seirbhísí Uisce agus Séarachais a chuireann Uisce Éireann ar fáil i gceantair Ghaeltachta: Plé.
Mr. Des Joyce:
In a similar fashion to what my colleague said on the wastewater side, under the rural water programme we have community water schemes. We are engaging very closely with the Department on the development of community water schemes, which is the project to pipe unpiped areas and bring water to unpiped areas. It is exactly the same way. If the schemes are constructed to our specifications, which is being done, and we have the capacity to take them on from a water availability and treatment capacity point of view, we are happy to take them on. That is ongoing at the moment. Were that to be expanded into Gaeltacht areas and we had the water, I am sure the same would apply.
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