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

Ms Maria O'Dwyer:

We would welcome the Senator to come see a couple different sites to get a greater appreciation for the different scales. When it comes to smaller villages and smaller treatment, we have learned over the years that if you want to scale and deliver faster, you have to be able to standardise what you are doing. We are of the view that if we could move faster and standardise the work we have to do in these areas, we could achieve greater environmental benefit. We have a piece of work to do in working through the regulations and working through the different interested parties in producing the science to back that up. That is where we believe we could engage with our supply to chain on how we develop units where the same unit could be used in multiple different sites. Then the conversation is changed completely from construction on site to engaging in more modular builds and more work happening off site. That is where much of the construction industry is going, and water services will be no different.

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