'Pointless' to discuss Cork county development plan due to water issues

Cork County Council's Northern Division won unanimous backing from colleagues to write to the Taoiseach and Minister for Housing about funding. File photo. 

There is little point in Cork County Council spending many hours discussing a new blueprint for future development in the region when they can't rely on Irish Water to provide the necessary infrastructure to allow them build more houses, councillors have said.

The utility came in for widespread criticism at a meeting in County Hall yesterday with calls being made to hand water and sewerage projects back to the control of local authorities.