Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann
Mr. Niall Gleeson:
I think so as any one time, we have 200 projects ongoing, so I would not know the specifics of each one. I do know that we are extensively engaging with Centre Parcs on its water supply, so I am surprised that the Toome Cross project has not started, but we can come back to the Deputy on that. On group water schemes in general, I am not familiar with that stipulation between 17 and 25. But where group water schemes in general are concerned, we are quite happy and willing to take them over. We have a programme in place with the Department for the transfer and there is a process to go through of bringing them up to standard and then taking them into charge. We see it as part of our responsibility, especially as standards from Europe increase. As we know that smaller schemes are struggling to cope, we see it as part of our remit to take them over. I will investigate those but I think on all three, unless anyone else knows anything about them-----