Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed).
Mr. Adrian Geissel:
I do not know how that would work either because Uisce Éireann is trying to concentrate on fixing the water-in-water-out problems that we have. If we start hiving off some of that, will it improve things? That is the train of thought I would hold. I agree with Ms Burke that we need decisions and we need them to be implemented quickly. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan spoke about the examples of other cities which are smaller and less well resourced. The frustration all of us in the room have is that we have great ideas but nothing is moving on them. We need to start moving on things. I believe we have the resources available to deliver on those. We could put shovels in the ground on many things tomorrow. We do not always need to have the best or the complete solution on infrastructure. Sometimes a chunk of infrastructure is better than waiting for the perfect infrastructure.
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