Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Mr. O'Rourke mentioned water infrastructure and wastewater treatment plants. When we look at developing our towns and trying to get housing, this is one of the major constraints we have. If you talk to anybody in IDA Ireland about this, he or she will say there is no housing available in an area for someone to rent or live in and we have pressure points on this. What is the role of the IDA? How will it feed into Irish Water at national level? How does it tell Irish Water that 52% of its investment is regional, that it now wants to invest into other regions that have not seen investment but there are constraints? How does it tell the utility that these are the constraints and here is its voice? What does IDA Ireland envisage can be done in those terms? How do we invest in that type of infrastructure? It is one of those things. It is maybe not something that comes up in the IDA annual report. I do not know if I see it in here, but it is a constraint.