Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Uisce Éireann

2:00 am

Photo of John BradyJohn Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)

My final question is about a parochial issue. It relates to two sewage treatment plants in Wicklow, one being the Murrough in Wicklow town and the other being in Greystones. I have, unfortunately, had to go down the route of referring them to the EPA because of serious ongoing issues in terms of severe levels of really bad odours, above and beyond what would be expected. The EPA has carried out site investigations. Uisce Éireann has told me that both plants are on a list, there are different pieces of work going on and they need to be upgraded in terms of the odour abatement systems. I have been told it will be potentially next year before this happens. I do not know whether you would have any specific information in relation to those. They have been going on now for a number of years in terms of the negative experience, not just in Greystones, a highly residential area, but also in the Murrough, which is an area of high public amenity and a special area of conservation. Is there any clarity or any assurance that can be given to people in those areas that we are not going to experience the same levels of serious failures within those two plants and that the upgrades will actually take place?

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