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

Brian Stanley: I recognise the technologically important work that the organisations are doing and nature of the workforce in both semi-State bodies. To utilise my time well I will ask direct questions and ask our guests to give direct answers. What was the overall spend last year by Uisce Éireann? What is the rough percentage of total funding that was spent on replacing water supply pipes that...

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

Brian Stanley: No. My questions are as follows. In 2024, how much was spent replacing pipes in the ground? What percentage was that of the funding? Was it 1% or 10%?

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

Brian Stanley: Does that include wastewater treatment systems?

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

Brian Stanley: So the overall budget was €1.3 billion last year.

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

Brian Stanley: So €1 billion was spent elsewhere. I know that is complex because there is a whole lot of other areas. What is the estimated overall cost of the Shannon-Dublin pipeline project now?

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

Brian Stanley: I remember standing on a site in Garryhinch, the proposed location for a reservoir, with representatives of Bord na Móna, when it was in the game, along with representatives of Uisce Éireann, when the project was estimated to cost €0.6 billion. Some €4.6 billion is required now. Does Uisce Éireann have certainty in funding for that or is it dependent on what...

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

Brian Stanley: It depends on the review of the national development plan. It is €4.6 billion. On the cost of connections, a person is building a rural house where the pipe has to go across a field, not across the runway of an airport or motorway, just green grass in his field. It is not a long distance. You could throw a stone from the road, where the mains is, to the house. He got a bill,...

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

Brian Stanley: That is fine but I am asking a different question. This couple is building a one-off house and the pipe needs to be laid a certain number of metres across a small field to meet the mains on the road. Irish Water will connect it. I understand that. Will Irish Water allow for that household to bring the pipe to the road across the green field?

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

Brian Stanley: Please do so and come back to me on it.

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

Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Gleeson.

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

Brian Stanley: They own the field.

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

Brian Stanley: I will come back to that. I welcome ESB Networks. It has reached 4,000 workers now. My time was taken by the Cathaoirleach.

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

Brian Stanley: I do not mind because he was pursuing the same issue. On ESB Networks and its number of workers, the ESB had a great record of doing connections in the past. People would apply for a connection and within a week or two weeks, the crew cab or van would be up there connecting it. The ESB had a workforce of approximately 9,000 at one stage. It went down to almost 2,000 two years ago. The...

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

Brian Stanley: I read those figures. Will that continue? Is it the aim of the company?

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

Brian Stanley: It is clear that the over-dependence on private contractors did not work very well in some areas from what I have seen.

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

Brian Stanley: On data centres and housing, it is projected that we will probably end up with between 200,000 and 250,000 new homes between now and 2030. In a few words, if the demand by data centres increases - at the moment they account for approximately 22% or 23% of our electricity demand - to more than 30% or up to 35%, will ESB Networks be able to supply the additional 250,000 houses that are...

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

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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Brian Stanley: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has concluded the examination of the review commissioned by the Housing Agency in order to develop a new income eligibility model, so as to raise income thresholds for social housing given the cost of renting and buying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35834/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (1 Jul 2025)

Brian Stanley: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that, according to reports this week, house prices have risen to a ten-year high; if, given that in Laois this inflation has risen by 17%, combined with a shortage of affordable and cost rental homes, he will increase the threshold for afford to buy and cost rental; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (1 Jul 2025)

Brian Stanley: 419. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will look into the issues around very poor broadband and phone services in rural parts of Laois, particularly in Errill and Rathdowney; the stage that the National Broadband Programme is at for this region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35201/25]