Irish Water needs to do “a significant amount of work” to reach some of its five-year targets, according to the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities.

Despite having spent €27 million more than its €760 million budget for 2020, the body is making slow progress on work it needs to complete by 2024, according to a recent CRU report.

Irish Water plans to invest €5.2 billion in public water and wastewater infrastructure between 2020 and 2024, but the report is likely to raise concerns over the company’s ability to complete the job.

Irish Water, a subsidiary of state-owned Ervia, has agreed to replace more than 13,000 aged backyard water mains but replaced only 1,597 in 2020, less than half the previous year’s figure. Only 1,385

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