Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association

2:00 am

PJ Murphy (Fine Gael)
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A reed-bed system was piloted in County Waterford. Again, it was found that the system was more suited to an acidic area as opposed to an alkaline karst landscape because a reed bed must hold water for reeds to grow, which does not fit with a limestone karst landscape. It is quite problematic.