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Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Is the plan to consult with-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: If the Department asked each of the chief executives, they could provide the information. We are in the real world, so it is important that it gets that.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: We do not want it said that a substantial number of local authorities were never even consulted on the matter.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Large-scale Capital Projects: Discussion (21 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Our next meeting will be with Uisce Éireann on 28 May 2025. There is one piece of housekeeping work to do before the meeting concludes.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (27 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 765. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27545/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (29 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the review of the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Priorities (29 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: 146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the work of the new infrastructure division in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27740/25]

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I have received apologies from Senator Eileen Flynn. I remind members of the constitutional requirements that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. I also remind them of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: At our previous meeting, nominations for Leas-Chathaoirleach were sought. Two nominations have been received – one for Senator Eileen Flynn and one for Deputy Joe Neville. The way the d’Hondt system works here is that it is a long-established position that the first name received is put to the floor. If that person is elected, that is the end of the matter. If that person is...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I will now put the question about the second nomination received. On the question that Deputy Neville be elected Leas-Chathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery a division has been challenged.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I declare Deputy Neville the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I congratulate him and invite him to say a few words.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Before we move on to our major item of business today, Uisce Éireann, we will suspend briefly while the witnesses take their seats.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: The purpose of today's meeting is to hear from Uisce Éireann on its future work programme. I am pleased to welcome, Mr. Niall Gleeson, chief executive officer; Mr. Sean Laffey, asset management and sustainability director; and Ms Maria O'Dwyer, infrastructure development director. I remind witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Gleeson. I have a few short questions before I call members in the order that they indicated to speak. He said that he hopes to have a budget between 2025 and 2029, which is five years, of €10.3 billion, which is approximately €2 billion a year. According to the information provided to us, Uisce Éireann had committed capital expenditure in 2024 of...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Is it included?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: What funding would Uisce Éireann have if it did not get the escrow account money?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Gleeson think that a 10% cumulative increase per annum to get to the €10 billion is adequate, given rising costs? That will only be a real increase in investment of 5% or something like that. Is that adequate for the increase in population?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Seán Fleming: So, really, we are not looking at a financial constraint here but a construction constraint. Many Irish companies will think that the UK's figures are ten times higher than ours and that there is ten times more work in the UK than there is in Ireland over the next five years. We will end up maybe not having adequate people entering for some of the work if there is more than ten times more...