Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann
2:00 am
Ms Maria O'Dwyer:
As we were coming into summer last year, we did a lot of work on our estimate. It was always north of €1 billion, but we had a range up to €1.5 billion at that point. We were delighted, obviously, to get planning in the summer. That came with a number of new conditions, so the team are working through those at the moment in terms of what that means for the project estimate. As Mr. Gleeson said, we were judicially reviewed subsequent to that. We are waiting to understand the implications of that. We are pulling together a revised estimate looking at a number of contingencies. There are a lot of moving parts at the minute. We are hopeful that we are going to get a positive outcome out of the court case in December, or possibly in the new year. We will then make a submission to the Government to proceed with our procurement.
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