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237 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the plans, if any, his Department has for the extension of the Ballytie sewerage scheme to permit further local authority and private developments in the area and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6193/00]
There is no such proposal in my Department.
238 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the funding, if any, he has granted to urban district councils to permit those councils extend sewerage and water services to their boundaries where this has not already occurred; if he has satisfied himself on the extension of these boundaries where these services do not exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6194/00]
Details of my Department's water services investment programme are contained in the Water and Sewerage Services Investment Programme Annual Report, 1999, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library. A sanitary authority is entitled to undertake other water and sewerage projects from its own resources, including extending services up to and outside its administrative boundary, with the agreement of the adjoining authority, where necessary.
Any proposal for the extension of a local authority boundary is, in the first instance, a matter for the local authority itself, under Part V of the Local Government Act, 1991, which contains no requirements in relation to services of any kind.
