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:
For example, we are allowed to build an additional 10% of our footprint on an existing treatment plant without planning permission but if that went to 25%, that would give us a lot more flexibility and we would not have to bring plans through the planning system. People driving by a plant would not notice if we added in a few extra tanks. We would obviously keep in with the environmental requirements through the EPA's emission limit value, ELV, requirements. There are things we could do that would be relatively easy to deliver across a multi-agency approach. They would be relatively easy for the State to deliver and would make things move more quickly. I suspect we could give this Department that appendix or that letter. I do not see any problem with that. It would have the details of the ask.
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