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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I thank Mr. Gleeson and his colleagues for being here today. I will start with questions on the connection and pre-connection agreements. What is the average time taken by Uisce Éireann to issue a pre-connection agreement at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: It is 16 weeks.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: What is the quickest and slowest on either end if the average is 16 weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Is that for pre-connection, not for connection agreements?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: What would Ms Ryan consider to be a straightforward case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: A pre-connection is 16 weeks and then connection agreements after planning permission is a further 16 weeks. It that what Ms Ryan is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: That is the average. I will ask the same question regarding the high and low ends of connection agreements. What is a quick time and what is a slow time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Uisce Éireann staff will be familiar with these and I will not go into the exact detail of where this particular case is located but I ask about it because I would consider this a straightforward case for Uisce Éireann to deal with. It is a former public house that had wastewater and water connections in place. It is being converted into ten residential units under the repair and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: That is why I asked the question. The average is 16 weeks. I have an example there of 31 weeks. I have other examples that are in excess of that with respect to connection offers for greenfield developments for developers. Is that acceptable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: No, it does not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Will Mr. Gleeson give the committee a commitment there are no other developments waiting in excess of 31 weeks for a connection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: What about 40 weeks or 50 weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I think it is, because politicians will rightly get it in the neck for not delivering housing units and we all want to deliver more of those, but an integral part of that system is ensuring we have an adequate system in place to get the appropriate permissions in place to allow that development to occur.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Is it 80% or 86%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: That would be useful for the committee in seeing the outliers on the long end and the short end. The officials will have to appreciate if a developer is waiting up to 30 weeks on a pre-connection and, subsequently, up to 30 on a connection, it is more than a year where nothing is happening on the site. That is not even allowing for the planning permission that could go to judicial review....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: I did not for one second suggest it was the norm.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Sure. I do not know how much time I have left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)
John Cummins: Just to be clear, the officials are saying 86% are dealt with within 16 weeks.