I propose to take Questions Nos. 536 and 541 together.
The Ballingeary sewerage scheme was eleventh in the list of sewerage schemes submitted by Cork County Council for its southern division in response to my Department's request to local authorities to undertake fresh assessments of the needs for capital works in their areas and to prioritise their proposals on the basis of the assessments. The priority lists were taken into account in the framing of my Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2002-2004. Given the priority afforded to the scheme by the council and the level of competing demand, it has not been possible to include the scheme in the programme.