Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann
Ms Angela Ryan:
In the context of engagement with the farming community, there are approximately 500 landowners along the route of the pipeline. Uisce Eireann has a dedicated landholder liaison team that has been engaging with each of those landowners significantly in recent years. We have had approximately 26 engagements with every landowner along the route. As part of our preliminary designs, we had to carry out significant levels of site investigations along the route. We have been granted access to land to complete all those site investigations to date. That is quite positive. In terms of landowner liaison, we have had a number of requests for pipe route alteration. We had nearly 150 requests from landowners to alter the route. We have accommodated requests where we can. Approximately one third of the requests to which I refer have been accommodated. We have been able to partially accommodate one third by moving the pipeline slightly within the land to suit them better. We have not been able to facilitate one third, predominantly for technical reasons, or it is just moving the pipeline into another person's land. That engagement has been quite good so far.
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