Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Joe CooneyJoe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael)
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It is great to see projects like that delivered, in fairness, and, hopefully, we will see more of them. Going back to upgraded treatment plants, we have 80 houses being held up out in two rural parts of County Clare, with 60 in one area and 20 in the other area. They are in Kilkishen and Ruan. It is the capacity that is the problem in Kilkishen. Two years have passed and there has been no movement whatsoever. We have been on to Uisce Éireann but received no reply regarding an upgrade. Could we be given an idea of what could happen in those situations or how we could move this situation forward?