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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...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: I agree. There were challenges with rural electrification. They were very clever and sent all sorts of people around the country with the message that it was safe. It would be fair to say that if we had to do it nowadays, it would never happen. This is a big challenge in our society. We will have to put up with the infrastructure onshore. I live in an area where there was a very poor...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: On the 9 GW-----

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: This is probably one of the best sessions we have ever had in this committee-----

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: -----and we have had some good ones. I take it all of the offshore development that will happen between now and 2030 will be fixed to the bottom of the sea.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: That will expand after 2030 and go to the very new technologies.

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Surely the role of the rural development Department is to be, as I described it earlier, disruptive of the vertical approach within the State. The whole idea of a crosscutting Department was to cut across all of the anomalies caused by the vertical structure of the State, which creates totally wasteful resource use by having all of these schools and community facilities just lumped with more...

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

Éamon Ó Cuív: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Uasal Mac an Mhíle.