Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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On Irish Water and sewerage treatment, over 500 facilities built in the 2000 to 2008 period are not up to scratch from an environmental point of view and from the process that is in place. What is planned to get all of those facilities up to a proper standard? Local authorities have refused to take over estates until Irish Water takes over sewerage treatment plants but Irish Water is refusing to do so because the plants are not up to standard.