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:

The other thing, and maybe Ms O'Dwyer will comment on this, is that we have to get faster. One of the reasons we are looking for legislative change is that we are not looking to cause damage by any manner or means but maybe if we could have a standardised approach to small towns and villages we could deliver en masse. At the moment, every single wastewater treatment plant we have has its own bespoke licence or certificate of authorisation. I would not say every plant we build is a one-off - the technology is all the same - but we have to build to that specific licence requirement. If we could do something that was standardised at 1,000 population equivalent, we would be able to just turn them out. If exemptions were in place for putting the plants in, we could just turn them out and put them in. We have to speed up.

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