Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2:00 am
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
Uisce Éireann will have the funding to deliver those types of schemes but we also have to facilitate the developers because there are 400-plus villages in that position. If we were waiting for Uisce Éireann to get to every one of them, even if it had the funding, it would take a considerable period. It requires a dual approach, one in which Uisce Éireann does it while also facilitating developers that want to deliver housing in those rural areas and can do so safely.
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