asked the Minister for the Environment if he will review Inch group water scheme, County Kerry, with a view to making it a regional scheme to be carried out by the county council.
Written Answers . - Water and Sewerage Schemes .
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: There is no current proposal for a group water supply scheme to serve the Inch area before my Department. Kerry County Council submitted contract documents for the proposed Inch public water supply scheme to my Department on 22 May 1978. The council's proposals relate to the provision of headworks which would supply water to cater for group scheme development. A group water supply scheme has already been designed to serve 128 houses in the Keel area and there appears to be no adequate reason why a similar scheme could not now be organised locally to serve the Inch area. Because of the extent of the sanitary services priority programme and the limitations on capital it is a long-established policy not to provide regional schemes for areas where headworks and/or trunk mains are provided by a county council and the remaining distribution system can be laid by group scheme development. Grants are available which generally cover two-thirds of the cost of the work involved.
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asked the Minister for the Environment the date on which his Department received proposals from Kerry County Council to extend the sewerage scheme to Tonbwee, Castleisland, County Kerry; and the present position regarding the proposal.
: There are no current proposals for the provision of sewerage facilities at Tonbwee before my Department.