BREAKING NEWS: Ireland paying €19,000 fines per day due to lack of quality

Over 70 voices have already reached An Coimisiún Pleanála, each weighing in on the future of the Shannon Pipeline.

The ambitious multi-billion euro plan aims to draw more than 300 million litres of water every day from the Shannon at Parteen Basin, sending it on a 170-kilometre journey to Dublin.

A chorus of opposition has arisen, with groups such as the Shannon River Environmental Protection Alliance, led by Tipperary Councillor Seamus Morris, voicing strong objections. Even Tipperary County Council, the local authority, has sounded the alarm over the pipeline’s potential impact.

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During the monthly Tipperary County Council meeting in Nenagh, Councillor Morris insisted that Dublin’s problem is not a lack of water, but a failure to manage it. He argued that the Midwest should not bear the consequences of mistakes made elsewhere, and pointed to the daily fines Ireland faces for poor water quality as evidence of deeper issues.

“There’s no shortage of water in Dublin, if you look up the Dublin water capacity report, none of them is in a red area up to 2032, so there isn’t a shortage of water.”

“Dublin has a water management issue there, losing 300 million litres of expensively treated water into the ground every day.”

“It is also important to note that this country is being fined 19,000 euros per day by the European Court of Justice because of the lack of water treatment quality in our rivers since 2019.”

“Also, Uisce Eireann was fined 25 million euros last year by CRU for their inability to repair leaks at the level that the CRU had asked them to.”