Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Mr. Sean Laffey:

If the Deputy looks at our asset base, we have water, wastewater, networks and treatment plants. We are focusing on wastewater treatment right now. We also have maintenance that we have to do. We estimate that to bring all of our networks, wastewater treatment plants and water treatment plants up to a good standard is going to cost between €60 billion and €70 billion because of the underinvestment of previous decades. What we are doing is looking at all our wastewater treatment plants and tackling them on a case-by-case basis. We are prioritising compliance and we are prioritising our investments to make sure we get the best bang for our buck in terms of impact on the environment.

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