Uisce Éireann Growth and Development Programme

Uisce Éireann’s Growth and Development Programme is a national programme of targeted investment to enable essential housing.

This programme is designed to support:

• Growth and development in key growth areas throughout the country, while protecting the environment and ensuring a continued supply of safe drinking water.
• National Policy Objectives and National Strategic Outcomes under the National Planning Framework, by ensuring that essential infrastructure is provided within each Local Authority area.
• Investment in accordance with County Development Plans. 
• Customer funded projects to support social and economic development.

The delivery of water and wastewater capacity is vital to support economic growth both locally and nationally across the country.

• We are focused on improving water services to support growth in line with national planning policy requirements, based on a clearly defined set of priorities including sustainable growth, water quality and environmental compliance.
• Our approach to planning and providing water services for growth is evidence based.  We look at national planning policies and plans that have a direct impact on where investment should be prioritised or which have a dependence on the public water and wastewater infrastructure, such as the National Planning Framework, Regional Spatial and Economic Strategies, County Development Plans, Local Area Plans, and climate action plans.