Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion
2:00 am
Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
I have one more question to Uisce Éireann. I will probably have to come back to ESB Networks in the second round. As regards Uisce Éireann's engagement with various stakeholders, public representatives, local authorities, developers and so on, with respect, we hear a lot of criticism in terms of Uisce Éireann being a difficult organisation to engage with. Developers, for example, will say it takes months to get connection offers and so on. There are large amounts of bureaucracy and red tape. One of the big criticisms is that people are not dealing with the same person often but are continually dealing with different people. What would the representatives say to that criticism? Is there change afoot to try to improve Uisce Éireann's engagement with critical stakeholders?
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