Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Challenge and Opportunity for Local Authorities in Climate Action: Discussion

Mr. Peter Burke:

We have the local authorities water project office in place. As Mr. Mahon said, there is a business case that has just kicked off this year. It is a year-long timeline that is being funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. It is to present that within the year. That will set out what an expanded local authority water projects office will look like. We will probably rebrand it as natural water function. It will come back to the underlying issue, which is resources, but it will set out what the request is and what that reformed structure will look like. We are talking about a year for the business case to be developed. It is quite comprehensive and there is a lot of work to be put in place to do that.