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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to deliver the extra funding identified by local authorities, his Department and Uisce Éireann, as being necessary to deliver the measure 8 rural water programme; when that funding might be forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35594/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: The lack of wastewater treatment is highlighted as one of the biggest blockages in the delivery of Government housing targets. In 2022, the Minister announced €50 million under the rural water programme to deliver treatment systems in towns and villages that are not serviced. Three years on, none of these projects have begun. Will the Minister distribute these funds to any local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: I understand from speaking to colleagues from other counties involved in this scheme that some are much further along in the process than others. I know that Clare County Council can progress if the Department confirms funding for the two projects in Broadford and Cooraclare. These two settlements have demonstrated significant commitment to the proposal of public treatment systems. I asked...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: In Minister of State's own words, the housing crisis is an emergency. The lack of a treatment system in towns and villages is one of the causes of this emergency, yet the money to develop such systems in towns and villages that are not serviced has been sitting in the Department's bank account for the past three years. The county council is clearly committed to delivering this scheme in two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank both organisations for coming in. I compliment them on the great work they did after Storm Éowyn. There was a lot of destruction out there, unfortunately. Housing delivery is a big issue, and wastewater infrastructure is a major concern. In the absence of any commitment to develop sewerage schemes in small towns and villages in a timely manner, I ask Uisce Éireann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: I take on board Mr. Gleeson’s concerns. However, we are in crisis now and we have to review it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: What kind of a timeline is Ms Ryan talking about, to go through all those processes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: Going back to developer-led modular certified wastewater treatment plants, does Uisce Éireann have specifications? Could that not be considered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: We need to be fast-tracking it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: That is good. As Ms Ryan is well aware, rural villages and towns are being left; they are not being dealt with. Unfortunately, the population is dwindling away there. We are well aware of the issues in the environment and what has to be looked after now. If you do not have the proper systems, you will not be allowed to build in those villages and towns. Unfortunately, in my own County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: Arklow has been mentioned a few times and one of the members mentioned he was at the official opening last year or whenever it was. Was that a developer-led modular system in Arklow or was it put in place by Uisce Éireann?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: 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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: That is fair enough. I ask Mr. Gleeson to be sure to come back to me. The second area is Ruan, another village in the rural part of County Clare. There are another 20 houses there. There is an issue with the percolation area in the treatment plant. There are fine treatment plants in both those areas and 80 houses are being held up for development. That is not good enough, so perhaps Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank Mr. Gleeson very much for his time.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers on the driving test waiting list in County Clare, for category C, category C1, and category BE tests; the number of testers qualified for those categories in County Clare; the number of each driver type tested in County Clare for those categories, by month for 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025.; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: 204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving tests that have taken place in each test location in County Clare, by category, by day of the week, in tabular form, since The Driving Test Action Plan was announced by the RSA at the end of May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35216/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Tourist Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: 304. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of registered overnight serviced accommodation, by type, by county, in tabular form, for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35212/25]