Need for Youghal waste water treatment plant now more urgent

I am a resident of Youghal (and have been for the past 35 years).

I am hugely concerned by the lack of a waste water treatment plant in Youghal. It is draconian to have our excrement and all other human waste, flush directly into our sea, and the beautiful Blackwater.

However, there would appear to be a waste water treatment plant afoot which will treat the waste before it exits directly into the sea: or is it afoot? The announcement was made, the fanfare was rung out, all relevant politicians, Public servants, and those who like to be around when good news is announced, have spoken. Where is the real truth though? The plant is a capital project and under the Water Services Investment Programme is funded by both the Department of the Environment and the local authority. The latter is required to fund the so-called ‘Non-Domestic Marginal Cost’, while the department will fund the balance (we are told €18.2m is available for this.