Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a timeframe for when a referendum will be held on the ownership of Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50778/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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A Framework for the future delivery of water services was identified with unions at the Workplace Relations Commission on 24 June 2022. My Department also hosted parallel engagement with unions on a number of policy matters of relevance to workers in the context of the overall water transformation programme, including a referendum on water ownership. A paper entitled Irish Water Transformation - the Wider Policy Context was shared with unions on 18 July 2022 to reflect the engagement outcomes. It sets out the planned approach to bring forward a referendum proposal on water ownership for consideration by Government in conjunction with the anticipated recommendation of a proposed referendum on housing from the Commission on Housing. The Framework document and the Wider Policy Context paper are available to members in the Oireachtas Library.