Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery

Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation

2:00 am

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I will have to get further detail on that particular project. We heard very clearly the issue of the funding gap Irish Water has had which has impeded the progress of some of the projects. That is why the programme from 2026 to 2030 has a €12 billion investment in water infrastructure. I think there is significant confidence now in Uisce Éireann's ability to give momentum to a lot of these projects that were held up for a series of years. We can come back on the detail relating to that project. We want to make them happen in the interests of building housing. That is what we need to do. There are too many parts of towns and villages throughout Ireland where, as the Deputy said, there is zoned land with maybe other services and the wastewater treatment plant is holding up the whole thing.

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