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Irish budget set to boost sewage treatment progress

by Karma Loveday

Record funding from the government will allow Irish Water to start work next year on a clutch of schemes designed stop the discharge of raw sewage into the sea, the part state-owned company has confirmed.


That’s in prospect following the state’s latest budget in which the water company received a record current and non-current funding allocation of €1.4bn next year.


Managing director of Irish Water, Niall Gleeson, welcomed the funding. “Looking forward to 2021 we have ambitious plans in place, including new projects in Donegal, Galway, Wexford, Cork, Clare and Arklow which will stop the discharge of raw sewage to the sea.


“We will also continue our investment in leakage, the removal of schemes from the environment agency’s remedial action list and the provision of clean, safe drinking water,” he said.

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