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:

What we are talking about there is looking at prefabbing off-site modules, getting them in faster, having the planning exemptions to do that and having standardised emission limit values so that we can manufacture these in the knowledge they will go in and do the job properly. All of these things are good and will speed matters up. They will drive down the price, which means we can do more of them and get more value for money.

In the current revenue control period of 2025 to 2029, if we get the additional €2 billion, some €300 million of that will be for small towns and villages. We also have approximately €270 million in the RC3. We will be spending more than €500 million on small towns and villages. The faster we can move and the more we can drive prices down, the more bang for our buck we will get.

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