Water Services
Dail Éireann — 2023-07-06
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Darragh O'Brien (FF), Dublin Fingal

I have brought forward the unserved villages. I expect to make announcements in the short term around that; it is the first €50 million outside of the capital programme for Irish Water. I visited Shannonvale with the Deputy. The situation there is intolerable. I have been back to Uisce Éireann. It will provide the stage 1 strategic assessment, which will move it on to stage 2, but the local authority has to engage on this. Some solution has got to be found in the short term for homeowners, whom I had the pleasure of meeting with the Deputy.
We have made a lot of progress in west Cork. The Deputy has outlined a number of the schemes we have brought forward. I will continue to work with him and the residents of Shannonvale. I am acutely aware that I met them on the ground. We are trying to bring Uisce Éireann, the local authority and the Department together on this because the situation is absolutely intolerable. A public playground in the area is closed because of the leakage, effectively, of sewage into the vicinity. That situation should not be allowed to continue.

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Sitting date: 2023-07-06