Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Towards a Zero Waste Approach to Water: Dublin Institute of Technology

3:00 pm

Dr. Seán Ó hÓgáin:

We are trying to promote the idea of a pilot project in a specific catchment, for example a rural, which would be applicable to other rural areas, getting the locals involved and seeing what training would be needed. We see the tie in between upskilling workers from the construction sector, such as carpenters and others for whom there is no work in construction at present. Following training in the low tech installation, they, as part of the community would promote this low tech answer in their community. Once people would see that these solutions were effective there would be a demand and they would want to have it installed.