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:

Ms O'Dwyer has already said this. One needs to look at the planning piece in context. We have environmental legislation, environmental licensing, the planning system and what I call private land matters, which are CPOs, wayleaves, etc. We then have public procurement. This all adds to time. If the Deputy was to ask me about the complex regime within which we sit, if we could have concurrent consenting where one set of documents goes in, there is someone from the EPA, someone from planning and someone from the foreshore licence unit or MARA if required and they make a combined decision rather than us going sequentially from place to place and potentially reworking the same information to different formats because the EPA likes it one way, and I am not picking on the EPA, because it likes it presented in a different way to that favoured by the planning authorities, it would be very good.

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