Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 January 2025
730. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if additional funding will be made available in 2025 to Uisce Éireann in order for the utility to provide new connections to more than 35,000 new homes per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46698/24]
View answerLast November, I approved Uisce Éireann's Strategic Funding Plan (SFP) for the years 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 my Department will fund Uisce Éireann to just over €1.7 billion with the Minister for Finance providing additional capital investment as announced in the Budget 2025.
The provision of additional capital investment in Uisce Éireann to support new housing targets will be considered in the context of an NDP review in the first half of 2025.
