Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Unlocking Barriers to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Conor O'Connell:

It is like everything. It is about the detail. From our perspective and from what we hear from our members, it is not so much a policy issue at this stage, rather it is the regulatory detail. I would need to see the detail of what is being proposed. There are 300 settlement areas in Ireland that need upgrades to their wastewater treatment plants. There are modular solutions available for those 300 settlement areas. It involves how much is that modular unit to simply crane into a wastewater treatment plant to connect, how long it will take to get through the EPA licensing or certification requirements for discharges and the costs around all that. It depends on how many units a builder or developer may have that it could connect to the system and then-----

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