Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In its submission, Mayo County Council stated that in July 2018, the application received from Cleragh community water connection was assessed and the scheme was deemed viable. It took until November 2023 for the connection application to be submitted to Irish Water. Why was there a five-year delay? I know we had Brexit, Covid-19 and all of that but there were two and a half or three years before the pandemic. Why did things not move quicker when a community was without water?