Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme

2:00 am

Mr. Niall Gleeson:

We will be doing both. Before we pump any water from the water supply project, we will have Dublin down to below 20% leakage and try to get it lower, but 20% is not a bad European average. We estimate that the project will cost somewhere between €4.5 billion and €6 billion. We are very confident in our scope. This is basically a water treatment plant and a long pipe. We have built lots of water treatment plants. We know how to build them, so we are not concerned about scope creep or anything there. It is a big pipe we have to put in the ground. We are pretty confident in our estimation. Where we would get escalation is where we get delays. The longer it takes us to start that project, the more expensive it will be, but we are pretty confident. As I said, before we deliver any water, we will below the European averages for leakage.

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