Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 April 2021
705. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of developer provided infrastructure projects nationwide that fall outside the scope of circular PL5/14 of November 2014 and the agreed memoranda of understanding in terms of the transfer of water services infrastructure assets within the estates to Irish Water by local authority area in tabular form. [18777/21]
View answerI assume that the Deputy is referring to housing estates which are not taken-in-charge by local authorities and do not have their water services connected to the public (Irish Water) network but rely instead on infrastructure, often temporary in nature, which was provided by developers.
These estates fall outside the scope of the memoranda of understanding between local authorities and Irish Water entitled, ''Memorandum of Understanding in connection with the development of a process for the taking in charge of residential estates connected to the Irish Water owned or controlled water and wastewater network and excluding Developer Provided Infrastructure'', that the Deputy refers to.
The table under provides a summary of returns from a survey of these estates in each local authority area. The survey was conducted jointly by my Department and Irish Water at the end of 2019.
As part of my Department's initiative to address the needs of these developments in September 2020 I approved funding allocations under the Multiannual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme 2019-2021. Details of the Expert Panel report, which gives more details of these estates nationally is available on my Department's website at the link under:
https://www.gov.ie/en/circular/7ec47-circular-ldpi01-2020-approval-of-projects-residential-estates-under-the-developer-provided-water-services-infrastructure-under-the-multi-annual-developer-provided-water-services-infrastructure-resolution-programme-2019-2021/
It is important to note that the information in the table is point in time data which is continuously adjusting and requiring update as local authorities refine their information on these estates.
|
Local authority |
Number of Developer Provided Infrastructure housing estates in Q4 2019 |
|
Carlow |
5 |
|
Cavan |
7 |
|
Clare |
20 |
|
Cork |
43 |
|
Donegal |
197 |
|
Galway |
62 |
|
Kerry |
42 |
|
Kildare |
22 |
|
Kilkenny |
15 |
|
Laois |
2 |
|
Longford |
3 |
|
Monaghan |
4 |
|
Roscommon |
1 |
|
Sligo |
4 |
|
Tipperary |
28 |
|
Waterford |
8 |
|
Westmeath |
1 |
|
Wexford |
94 |
|
Wicklow |
8 |
|
Totals |
566 |
