Pat Gallagher (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he will prioritise water and wastewater infrastructure to deliver the capacity to facilitate housing development in our towns and villages. [12723/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government commits to invest additional capital in Uisce Éireann to facilitate housing development in our towns and villages.

Last November, I approved Uisce Éireann's Strategic Funding Plan (SFP) 2025 - 2029. The SFP specifies the arrangements Uisce Éireann proposes to make and measures it proposes to take to meet the policy objectives of the Water Services Policy Statement, incorporating its estimated funding requirements for investment and operating costs together with sources of funding. The SFP plan sets out Uisce Éireann's multi-annual strategic funding requirement of €16.9 billion to 2029, comprised of a €10.3 billion investment in infrastructure and assets and €6.6 billion in operating costs, which is an unprecedented level of funding in our water infrastructure.

For 2025, the Exchequer will fund Uisce Éireann to just over €2.2 billion, which includes €514m of the €1bn equity investment announced by the Minister for Finance in the Budget 2025.

The provision of additional capital investment in Uisce Éireann to support housing development in our towns and villages will be considered in the context of a review of the National Development Plan in the first half of 2025.