{"id":338086,"date":"2026-03-10T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338086\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:00:11","slug":"breaking-news-ireland-paying-e19000-fines-per-day-due-to-lack-of-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338086\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Ireland paying \u20ac19,000 fines per day due to lack of quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70 voices have already reached An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la, each weighing in on the future of the Shannon Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s potential impact.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tipperarylive.ie\/news\/local-news\/2029090\/no-room-for-the-little-man-in-the-modern-game-of-hurling-according-to-shane-mcgrath.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.tipperarylive.ie\/news\/local-news\/2029090\/no-room-for-the-little-man-in-the-modern-game-of-hurling-according-to-shane-mcgrath.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1773167226015000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3S-WUOk0LB1BHTGjtujcOz\">No room for the little man in the modern game of hurling according to Shane McGrath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the monthly Tipperary County Council meeting in Nenagh, Councillor Morris insisted that Dublin\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s 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\u2019t a shortage of water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDublin has a water management issue there, losing 300 million litres of expensively treated water into the ground every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n Funded by the Local Democracy Scheme\n<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 70 voices have already reached An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la, each weighing in on the future of the Shannon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,23798,43,9123,119083,23123,21351],"class_list":["post-338086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-water","tag-news","tag-tipperary","tag-tipperary-breaking-news","tag-tipperary-community-news","tag-tipperary-county-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}