Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Mr. Sean Laffey:

Even with the best will in the world we are going to have to put a programme in place to deal with these. Every single one of them could be a new stand-alone wastewater treatment plant. We never confuse small with non-complex. They can be even more complex than big treatment plants. The first thing we will have to do is to survey every single one of them. We are going to have to work out exactly what we need to do. We have to resolve the legal issues because, ultimately, we cannot spend public money on something which is still in private ownership. Once we get those settled and sorted, we will start to roll out the programme to get them fixed.

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