Poor infrastructure has halted the delivery of hundreds of homes in Cork alone

New homes need services including water, electricity, and broadband — and under-capacity at wastewater treatment plants is jeopardising the building of hundreds of homes

Dunmanway Chamber of Commerce members Paul di Rollo and Conor Cahalane at the site of July's discharge into the Bandon river from Dunmanway's near-capacity waste water treatment plant.  

Poor public infrastructure is stalling the delivery of housing across the country, prompting calls for a dedicated fund to fast-track the servicing of sites.

Large tracts of land which local authorities have zoned for housing cannot be developed as they do not have the required water, wastewater, electricity, broadband, or transport infrastructure, the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) has said.