Seanad debates

Monday, 16 December 2013

Water Services (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

11:05 pm

Photo of Trevor Ó ClochartaighTrevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. It is very important that we are able to tease these things out. Certainly, Intel is one example but it is probably the biggest company we have so it will get whatever it needs from an infrastructural perspective. I would be more worried about companies under the auspices of Údarás na Gaeltachta which would be based in a Gaeltacht area. It might be a fish processing plant on the western seaboard where you need a proper wastewater treatment plant. It could normally apply to Galway County Council and it might have been seen as a priority for those areas. I am afraid that under Uisce Éireann, we will have the IDA model of development where everything is based around the big cities and when it comes to something like a peripheral, rural or Gaeltacht area, it will be much harder to get the type of development one is looking for.

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