Irish Water’s budget has increased by nearly €1 billion

Irish Water’s budget for fixing the country’s creaking water infrastructure has ballooned by almost €1 billion, it has emerged.

This has been caused by a rise in the estimated cost of major projects like the Shannon pipeline to bring water to Dublin, the upgrade of the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant for Dublin bay and the construction of the wastewater treatment plant to clean up Cork harbour. But there has also been a rise ...