asked the Minister for the Environment when he will make finance available to Dublin County Council in order that work may be carried out on the culverting of the Kilbarrack stream adjacent to Streamville Road and Foxhill Estate, Dublin 13.
Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Kilbarrack (Dublin) Stream Culverting.
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The local authority's proposals for this scheme must be considered in the context of the amount of capital available for water and sewerage schemes and the number of schemes in progress or getting to construction in Dublin and throughout the country at the present time. I am not as yet in a position to say when I can convey a decision thereon. The question of finance will not arise until the scheme has been fully approved.
Is the Minister aware of the concern of the people in this area and the danger to children this stream is causing? Would he not make available immediately the necessary finance to have this stream culverted in the near future?
The scheme has not been finally approved. I appreciate the Deputy's concern for the people in that area—I represented them myself—and I will give the matter sympathetic consideration.
The Minister said the scheme has not been finally approved. Who is holding up the approval?
It has only recently come back to my Department in its revised form.
When was the original application for approval received by the Department? Was it not supported by the Minister at the time?
In October 1979 Dublin County Council submitted a proposal to culvert the stream.
Question No. 29 is for written reply.