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
Ms Angela Ryan:
In general, Uisce Éireann prepares a water and wastewater capacity register annually. Within that capacity register, there is a RAG status - red, amber, green. Green means capacity is available, amber means there are some limitations and we may need to progress a project and red is where there is no capacity. There are approximately 184 red wastewater agglomerations in our capacity register right now, 33 of which are in Cork county. The issue with reds in the capacity register is usually an environmental issue we cannot address until we progress a new water treatment system. We can follow up on the specific query. With reds on the capacity register, it is usually not an infrastructure issue, it is usually an environmental issue that prevents us from-----
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