Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Mr. Sean Laffey:

Of course we will. The system is designed to work that way. There are storm water overflow tanks and there are storm water overflows on the networks because the networks were designed that way. If there is a misconnection or raw sewage discharge, we can certainly look at taking those into our system. On the storm water overflows on the networks, we are looking to work with local authorities. We want blue-green infrastructure. We want people to stop hardening their driveways. We want developers to put in sustainable urban drainage systems and we want to work with local authorities to divert, where possible, surface water from our networks.

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