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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The schemes are on the edge of the village. The irony of it is that the centre of the village does not have sewerage. It is perverse but that is the way it happened for historic reasons. We are not talking about stretching half way across to Mainistir or Cill Éinne, we are talking about doing the core of the village and around it, as it is quite agglomerated. I refer to the part that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My experience is that it all comes down to money in the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We did that in Camas years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is great news. There was also a question for ESB Networks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Is it a one-off house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Did the county council give Mr. Nicholson a grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I wish I was living in County Limerick rather than County Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: There is no septic tank grant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I only suggested public infrastructure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Can we get the cost per metre?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: That is the case even though the pipe will be Uisce Éireann's and will be under the ground forever, available to anybody else who wants to connect their site to that final point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We might come back to Mr. O'Reilly on that again another day as I do not want to hold up the meeting. I thank him for the information. I think he sees where I am coming from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Coming from Dublin 4, I never saw an income calibration being done on the new wastewater infrastructure in Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: We are talking about putting a public pipe under a public road.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: How small is it? It used to be €20 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: €8 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would the Department not be able to get it back to where it was at about €20 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It has not done much on infrastructure recently. It is more town infrastructure than rural infrastructure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I did not suggest that. What I am suggesting is that the Department would use everybody else's expertise but that it would put in side funding. I will give an example. We had a scheme going where the county councils put in new wastewater systems. We went fifty-fifty, but we had no technical input and we left that to the parent Department. The scheme was under the group water schemes, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Water and Energy Connections in Rural Areas: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Shíl mé mar rannóg na n-oileán go mbeadh sí ar an talamh ag fáil na bhfadhbanna agus ag gabháil - ní ag fanacht - ach ag gabháil chuig na heagrais eile ag rá go bhfuil an fhadhb seo le huisce nó le séarachas ann, go gaithfear é a réiteach agus gurb é seo an méid atá an rannóg sásta a chur isteach sa...