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. Seán Laffey:
Mr. Gleeson said in his statement that we are very much focused on compliance and protecting public health and making sure our plans are in compliance both for drinking water and wastewater. That was the primary focus of what we were doing. We were making sure that our water supplies were secure and that, on a wastewater basis, we were actually looking at the greatest polluting plants in the country and tackling those first. We always put a bit on for growth. We put 10%, 15% or 25% additional capacity into each plant. Now that we are looking just at growth as a driver, what we have done in Uisce Éireann is that we have sat down and looked at the national planning framework, regional spatial and economic strategies, local area plans, county development plans, city development plans and we have pulled out 48 settlements that we are focusing on. There are another 100 in the pipeline. We had to sit down and go through every single local area and county development plan in the country and pull out the areas we are interested in. There is no single database where we can go and do that we are aware of.
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