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:
No, the point I am making is I need somebody centrally telling me today that in seven years time, I need capacity with the following settlements so we need to spend. It should be telling the ESB, TII and the Department of Education and Youth. I know local authorities are the planning authorities for their functional areas and I know we have a national planning framework but if there was a mandate or policy handed down to all the public utilities to say where we are going to go in the next seven years, it would help. At the moment, if we have capacity somewhere where people want to build houses, that is not by design. It is because we had a compliance issue at that location at some point in time.
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